Benidorm suspends classes and outdoor activities tomorrow Friday 13

Benidorm City Council maintains for Friday, September 13 and until further notice, the suspension of classes and leisure and sports activities in municipal facilities, as well as the closure of Elche Park.

In view of the data generated by Dinapsis Lab and the activated alerts and special warnings for meteorological emergency by the 112 Service of the Generalitat Valenciana and the state meteorological AEMET with a very high probability index (greater than 80%) in the Mediterranean coast that maintains the red level by rains for the day of tomorrow Friday, the City Council of Benidorm extends the suspension of the educational activities in all the educational centers of the city and those of free time and sports in parks and sports facilities to the day of Friday 13.

These measures will be maintained until further notice depending on the evolution of the weather situation.

And so they follow all the Municipal Emergency Services, Civil Protection and Local Police with their corresponding protocols for this type of situation. The normal activity in the work centers has been maintained and the extraordinary measures contemplated in the action protocols for people who need it that have been in force since autumn 2015 have been in force.

The Councilor for Works, José Ramón González de Zárate has thanked "the effort of the municipal staff of Technical Services and Local Police who have carried out early morning interventions and remain operational until the completion of the meteorological alert is determined."

"Benidorm has worked very well," he concluded after the balance of the night and evolution of tomorrow morning. A first episode of heavy rain around one o'clock in the morning, another of wind after three, a third, combined, of wind and rain minutes before eight in the morning and until a fourth episode after ten, have been The main references. The actions have focused "on the closure of Elche Park due to the incidence of wind and as prevention, due to the height of the palm trees."

As for street cuts, there have only been two - Toledo and Murtal streets - and "for prevention reasons", having registered a minor impact on the confluence of the avenues of the Mediterranean and l'Ametlla de Mar "with paving stones " It is a pending junction of a supramunicipal realization.

As for the works in progress on the Avenida del Mediterráneo, these "have worked after the emergency works at the beginning of the week and there has only been a momentary cut of fifteen minutes, having prepared the levees."

González de Zárate pointed out the work of the Municipal Technical Services, concession companies, Local Police and National Police in this episode whose alerts remain until further notice.