The Valencian Agency for Security and Emergency Response (AVSRE) has sent to the magistrate investigating the management of the flood of October 2024, in which 231 people died, the documentation that proves that between 5:30 PM and midnight on October 29, there were 3,326 telephone and radio communications with various municipalities, police bodies, and other local entities.
In an order notification delivered this Friday to the parties, the judge incorporates into the procedure the official letter and the files sent by the AVSRE, after requesting this agency the list of calls made from the Emergency Coordination Center to local authorities in the province of Valencia on the 29th, in relation to the flood.
The documents sent, which Europa Press has accessed, record a total of 3,326 contacts. In the block of telephone communications —1,279 in total— the agency specifies that all calls, both outgoing and incoming, from numbers registered in the agenda as local authorities of municipalities in the province of Valencia have been included.
Among these numbers are phones of municipal officials, City Hall, National Police Corps, and Local Police. In the corresponding table, the identifier of the case linked to each call is recorded, when available; the date and time it was made; the date and time of response, if there was one; the type of call; the sender or receiver of the communication; and the name of the file containing the associated recording.
Regarding the section of radio communications from the local police of the province integrated into the emergency management system, a table with the 307 conversations conducted through this channel is included.
This relationship includes, among other fields, the date and time of each communication, the identifier of the associated case —when it exists—, the name of the radio group, and the name of the audio file linked to the recording.
Additionally, a list of all communications made through the Integrated Emergency Management System (CoordCom) is provided. For each of the 1,740 registered, the associated case, the classification of the incident, the responses given to the questions "What is happening?" and "More info," the type of communication, and the date and time it occurred are detailed.
After analyzing this material, Judge Nuria Ruiz Tobarra has agreed to require the AVSRE to send an equivalent list of communications, but corresponding to the time slot between 05:00 and 17:30 hours on the day the tragic landslide occurred.
Requirements regarding officials and recordings
The judge also orders to ask the AVSRE that, regarding the radio communications of the Local Police of the province of Valencia integrated into the emergency management system, and to the table of conversations made through this means, specify within a period of three days to which municipalities those police bodies belong, which official attended the communications and if, in their case, they give their consent to collect the recordings.
In the same way, it requests the agency to identify the officials who made the outgoing calls to the Town Hall of Turís, at 17:32:31 and 17:33:05, and to that of Cheste, at 17:39:48 and 17:40:09, and if they accept that the corresponding recordings be obtained.
Finally, in the same order diligence, disseminated by the Superior Court of Justice of the Comunitat Valenciana, a journalist from the public Valencian television À Punt who reported on the flood from the municipality of Chiva is summoned to testify.