This was the minute-by-minute report of the DANA day.

ValenciaDid the absence of Valencian President Carlos Mazón influence the late formation of the DANA emergency committee on October 29th and the equally untimely dispatch of the ES-Alert? And what if, as the Popular Party maintains, the participation of the head of the Consell was not crucial, because he spoke by phone with the former Minister of Justice and the Interior, Salomé Pradas, two minutes before her? dictate the content of the message And one before spreading it? These are two of the main questions that Judge Nuria Ruiz Tobarra's investigation has been unable to answer eight months after the catastrophe that devastated much of the center of the Valencian Community and resulted in the deaths of 228 people. Among the questions the investigation has been able to answer are whether the Generalitat (Catalan government) had ignored warnings warning of an extremely dangerous cold snap and that its response was always late and insufficient.

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To try to clarify the keys to a management that the judge considers was burdened by an "obvious passivity", the ARA has reconstructed the day putting special emphasis on the performance of Mazón and Pradas and on the development of an Integrated Operational Coordination Center (Cecopi) that accumulated numerous errors, some as serious as the technicians They did not notify the senior officials of the regional government about the overflowing of the Poio ravine. –the cause of most deaths– because "They were not authorized to interrupt"the Cecopio and because there were already five members of the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation telematically in the emergency committee. Also, because the workers were "overwhelmed" by an avalanche of alerts and rescue requests. A saturation that is explained because on the day of the DANA only 47.5% of the planned workforce existed, which is 59 people, and by controversial measures such as The withdrawal at 2:30 p.m. of the firefighters who were monitoring the main Ramblas.

One of the elements that continues to attract the most attention is the reason why the Valencian government did not establish the Cecopio (the Emergency Management Agency) early this morning, even though at 7:36 a.m. the State Meteorological Agency had declared a red warning in two of the four zones into which the province of Valencia is divided. At 9:41 a.m., a third would be added. In fact, by 8:30 a.m., numerous municipalities in the Ribera Alta region were already flooded. However, the entire government maintained its agenda, including a meeting with unions and employers held at 1:45 p.m., in which Mazón He criticized the suspension of classes as "excessive" decreed the day before by the University of Valencia. The most surprising thing is that the Consell leader's complaints came just as the Valencia Provincial Council, also governed by the PP, decided to close all its workplaces. Pilar Bernabé, the Spanish government representative, The Military Emergency Unit in Pradas would have already offered, who did not accept it until 2:53 p.m.

It was just after the meeting of the head of the Consell with the employers and unions ended when one of the most controversial actions took place, such as Mazón not cancelling her lunch with journalist Maribel Vilaplana. The president is assumed to have left the luncheon around 5:37 p.m. This is the first time the Popular Party leader has answered a call from Salomé Pradas, who, along with her deputy, Emilio Argüeso, is charged with alleged crimes of homicide and reckless injury. Until then, Mazón had ignored him twice: at 12:52 p.m. and at 4:29 p.m. From that moment until 8:28 p.m., when he arrived at the Cecopio, the head of the Consell is assumed to have been at the Palau de la Generalitat. This version is defended by the Presidency, but for which no evidence is provided, such as the route taken by the official car. the recordings from the building's security cameras wave situation of his escorts.

In contrast to Mazón's tranquility, the emergency committee was ruled by chaos. This led to the Poio ravine being ignored, It was overflowing since 6 p.m.. The neglect occurred even though only from 5 pm to 6 pm did 112 receive 2,438 calls alerting them to the situation. Overwhelmed, The technicians did not warn their bosses about the fatal flooding of the Rambla, of which, at 18:43, the Confederation had also warned them through an email The information can also be consulted online in real time. The Cecopio government didn't realize what was happening until after 7 p.m., when the first images and phone calls from mayors began to arrive. This forced them to postpone sending the alert because they needed to expand their radius. Then it was time to choose the text, start the procedure... Finally, the alert was broadcast at 8:11 p.m., but with erroneous content. It asked people to avoid travel, but not for the population to stay home and in high areas, as a second message did at 8:57 p.m. In any case, it was already very late, and many people had already drowned or were about to do so.