CTSSP has appeared in Alumbres immediately after knowing that there had been a leak of water vapor over a mountain of sulfur, which generated a yellow cloud of particles in suspension, whose effects were felt after they had dispersed, since they were crying. eyes, and itching the skin and nose, even after several hours of the escape.
The councilor of PODEMOS at City Hall, Pilar Marcos, confirmed the seriousness of what happened after meeting with workers, neighbors and the director of the College of Alumbres, who had little or no information about it, but who felt in their own bodies the symptoms of emissions.
The surprise of the municipal group was capital when it was learned that it was not the company who communicated 112 the event but the school director, concerned about the health of the children and because no one gave instructions on how to behave in the yellow cloud that It was visible throughout the town.
The councilor of PODEMOS has criticized that there was uncertainty and misinformation to an entire town, since half an hour after the director denounced the 112, and when workers were being evacuated, communicating their families the event, and all the neighbors were all aware of the smell and the evidence of the cloud that was on top and was going to La Union, then the representatives of the company reported the incident to the Mayor.
However, this municipal group is not aware that REPSOL has previously notified the fire and civil protection service.
The municipal group demands immediate clarification about the events that occurred this morning.
In particular, it demands that the City Council clarify why the Emergency Plan was not implemented;
why the alarms did not sound preemptively;
why the company did not communicate in a timely manner to firefighters and civil protection;
why the residents of Alumbres did not have information or precise instructions about how they should behave, especially in the case of minors and people affected by respiratory diseases.
Finally, PODEMOS announced that it wants to know if the cloud that covered Alumbres can affect the health of the neighbors, how the effect of the wind has affected in this case and what values ​​the air quality measuring station has given, located in the facilities sports of the town, since this one is obsolete and also distorts its values ​​because it is covered with trees.
For these reasons, and many others related to environmental pollution, the purple formation reiterates to the socialist government the request for a convocation of the Air Quality Board.
Source: CTSSP