Strong gusts of wind of more than 60 km / hour cause the fall of several trees on public roads and advise to close preventively Elche Park

The strong gusts of wind that have been recorded in Benidorm throughout the morning, with peaks of more than 60 kilometers per hour, have caused the fall of several trees on public roads and have led the Department of Public Safety to close preventively the Elche Park.

The councilman of the area, Lorenzo Martinez, stressed that "we have taken this precautionary measure to prevent passers-by in the park to the risk of possible detachment of branches." This preventive measure has not affected, at least for the moment, the Parque de l'Aigüera, where the wind blows with less force.

Martinez has highlighted "the absence of personal injury" and the work that the local police and several municipal concessionaires are doing throughout the day to attend the incidents caused by the wind.

So, they have had to remove four trees that have fallen by the wind on Marina Baixa Avenue, on the road to El Llandero, at the junction of Jaen and Murcia streets and on Juan Pablo II avenue. In Juan Antonio Baldoví a branch has been detached, while the wind has broken another specimen in the avenue of France, has damaged the awnings of the point of accessible beaches of the Park of Elche and has broken a glass in a building of the street Esperanto

At this time, the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) keeps the yellow alert for wind in Benidorm until mid-afternoon.