We've previously reported on efforts in Almuñécar to send supplies to Valencia, but the capital of Costa Tropical, Motril, is also demonstrating the solidarity of its inhabitants.

Motril Town Hall organised a collection of foodstuffs, water and clothing, as well as hygiene and cleaning products and will continue to do so up to, and including, this Wednesday the 6th

Motril is also helping in another manner, as a detachment of fire personnel from the municipal fire station is deployed in Alfalfar (Valencia) lending a hand to the overwhelmed fire crews in Valencia. The first volunteers left on the 1st with vehicles loaded with necessary equipment and today the second group left to relieve their colleagues already there.

Their work consists of draining flooded, underground garages and basements and washing out ground floor premises, moving half-buried vehicles from the streets, as well as carrying out a search & rescue for the victims of the catastrophic flood. With this second group of volunteer, fire personnel, they have sent a trailer loaded with more water pumps.

As for the collection for the victims of the floods, it will continue through the 4th, 5th and 6th in front of the Town Hall between 08.00h and 14.00h.

Mayor Luisa García Chamorro said that she was very proud of how people have been responding in these last few days and that hundreds of kilos of food and litres of water… and even battery torches, have been handed in at the collection point.

(News: Motril, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)

Keywords: Valencia, Flood, Solidarity, Collections, Water, Food, Fire Personnel, Volunteers, Pumps