“The civil guards are very persistent, also when searching for victims. Hope is the last thing to go,” says the highest-ranking officer of the Civil Guard in the Valencian Community, General José Antonio Fernández de Luz. In an interview with the EFE Agency, Fernández de Luz responds this way when asked about the search efforts for two of the 230 fatalities of the dana, including a guard from the Paiporta post and the wife of another agent. “At least every 15 days we set up a search operation to look again where we have already been or in areas that experts in the field may indicate to us,” he adds about the search, almost 19 months after the dana, for the bodies of Elisabeth and Francisco, two of the flood victims.

Bombers de la Generalitat has been working since this morning against a vegetation fire declared at 12:45 in the municipality of Lladurs (Solsonès) affecting the Santa Eulàlia area, where the fire has been gaining intensity. This fire coincides with the forest fire declared on July 8 in the Pla de Manlleu, between Aiguamúrcia and Sant Jaume dels Domenys (Tarragona), of similar characteristics, which initially forced about 500 people to be confined through the Es-Alert system and affected 89 hectares, of which 74 were forest and 15 agricultural, according to provisional data from the Agents Rurals.

High-speed train services between Girona and Barcelona have been interrupted this Saturday due to a train breakdown near La Sagrera station, according to reports from Protección Civil and Adif around seven in the evening.

Los Mossos d’Esquadra have arrested two people responsible for the private nursery Patufet, located on carrer Sant Magí in Vilassar de Mar (Maresme), as part of an investigation opened for alleged crimes linked to the educational center and related to supposed mistreatment, according to a former employee’s complaint. The arrests took place this Friday.