Bahía Blanca enfrenta una devastadora inundación que ha dejado al menos 16 muertos y más de 960 personas asistidas. El relato conmovedor de Germán, un sobreviviente rescatado gracias a la valentía de vecinos, destaca la magnitud del desastre. La historia trágica de Pilar y Delfina, dos niñas arrastradas por la corriente, simboliza el dolor de una comunidad golpeada por la catástrofe. Mientras las autoridades continúan las labores de búsqueda y rescate, la ciudad se encuentra en estado crítico con infraestructuras destruidas y servicios paralizados. La esperanza persiste entre los habitantes que buscan reencontrarse con sus seres queridos desaparecidos.
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00:00How are you? How is it going? Good morning.
00:02Hello, how are you? Good morning.
00:05We see you, we see you, perfect. We hear you very well.
00:08Well, nothing, to greet you from here, from Friday that we lost connection.
00:12We know that you have been working all weekend.
00:14All of you there in Maya Blanca.
00:16Tell me how you are today, the day after.
00:18And also tell me, I don't know if you happen to see the images of what you did on Friday
00:23while the water was growing.
00:25If you see it again, what do you feel?
00:28Well, I was just telling my colleagues here in La Brújula.
00:32It's like watching a movie.
00:34You don't understand which part was reality or which part you dreamed of.
00:40But as it is filmed, you know it was reality.
00:43I was just telling you, yesterday the card started to fall, I say.
00:48And the body feels it, right?
00:50And also psychologically and physically one feels it.
00:53The body, I'm with, obviously, energetic.
00:57I understand, for the moment of tension and for making that effort
01:01when those neighbors on the first floor literally saved my life.
01:05Me and another six people more, as you showed at the time.
01:10Those who were in the garbage can, the two boys who were on top of the car.
01:14Of course, because we lost contact with you, Germán.
01:17The last image was you, obviously,
01:20telling that the situation was already quite out of control.
01:23They throw you the hose, that hose that we saw that falls.
01:26Is that where they all go up?
01:28Yes, they go up.
01:30I think it was seen when the guys who were in the basket, those in the car, go up.
01:34And then we went up the last two and they saved our lives.
01:38So, as I said, eternal thanks to those people.
01:42When you got to the first floor, you hugged the others who had escaped from that situation.
01:48Because if that hose wasn't there, I don't think we could have counted it.
01:52Because the tide, the force, that street, we were in Alembia-Guado,
01:57it had become a river, literally.
01:59It's impossible to hold on to a plow, if you didn't hold on to something, right?
02:04And praying that that something would also stay up.
02:08Juan, the latest report speaks of 16 people who have died and are attending a little more than 960.
02:16I ask you if you informally handle other information,
02:21because the mayor himself, in the last press conference he gave,
02:25left out that there could actually be more people who have died.
02:31What are the data now?
02:34Yes, yes, obviously there is a lot of information on social media,
02:38a lot of people who do things without checking, as is usually the case in these tragedies.
02:43But that is the official number.
02:45It is believed that there will be more victims, I don't know how many more,
02:48but that there will be more victims because there are people who have not been located.
02:51So, it is true that also, and it is the hope that we all have,
02:54that there are many people who are not communicated,
02:56that there are people who could not meet their family again or because they were isolated,
03:01without signal, without energy, and they have not yet been able to be located,
03:04or they were in the house of a neighbor.
03:06That is the hope that those 100 who have been reported today,
03:10or calls that have been reported as missing,
03:12well, the vast majority are people who have not been communicated,
03:15and not people who have died.
03:17The expectation in relation to the two little girls is not good, of course,
03:22because the truck driver who tried to save them appeared dead.
03:27But, well, the hope is, of course,
03:29and they are still looking with helicopters, with boats, with tractors in places.
03:34That place of Cerri was one of the most affected,
03:36next to Ingeniero Guay.
03:37There the water remains.
03:42For me, the story of Avila Blanca is summarized in the story of Delfines de Pilar,
03:46of 1 and 5 years.
03:47Many things have happened to me, there are 110 missing,
03:50but a message, whatever you want to call it,
03:52they are people who have not been found for now.
03:55But it seems to me that the emblematic story is that of Pilar and Delfina,
03:581 and 5 years old,
03:59their mother literally lost them from her arms,
04:02the water ripped them off.
04:04On the weekend, because there was a lot of talk about the truck,
04:07of Andriani,
04:08that Rubén Salazar, who unfortunately appeared lifeless,
04:10who was the driver who stopped on Route 3,
04:12saw that the black Gol-Tren,
04:14where the family was going, mom, dad, Pilar and Delfina,
04:18of 1 and 5 years old,
04:19the water began to enter their vehicle,
04:21he got off, tried to help them,
04:23they got on a roof of the truck,
04:25but the water took it,
04:26it took it all, actually.
04:28The mother and the father managed to survive,
04:30the mother dragged 12 blocks,
04:32and the youngest, the one of 1 year,
04:34was the one that first took it to the stream,
04:36the second, the one of 5,
04:37holds on to the roof,
04:38and the water grows in such a way,
04:40as we saw that you recorded live,
04:42and also drags it to the stream.
04:44The prefecture,
04:46a few hours later,
04:48a helicopter arrived at the scene,
04:50and here I want to ask you,
04:52I wanted to give that information,
04:54it got to the place of the event,
04:55and it entered the truck,
04:57it entered to see if there was someone there,
04:59and they didn't find anyone.
05:00This story, this story, I say,
05:02sums up a bit everything that has happened in Bahía Blanca,
05:04because it moves us,
05:05because they are 1 and 5 years old, right?
05:08It's terrible, that story,
05:10obviously,
05:11it moves us because of the drama,
05:13and also because of the story of what one knows,
05:16of the people who were witnesses of that moment, right?
05:19It is that the impotence
05:21of not being able to help a person
05:23who is being dragged by the stream,
05:25is an indescribable thing.
05:27I lived it, I saw it,
05:29and I don't want to imagine what it is with two children,
05:31it's a thing,
05:33or with two little children, right?
05:35Two little children in this case.
05:37It's something that is unplayable,
05:39intransferable, right?
05:41Those feelings that one has left are intransferable.
05:43What I lived in person,
05:46I understand that,
05:48except for a man who was there,
05:50who was recorded,
05:51a man who was on top of a truck,
05:53a Fiat,
05:54who left with the truck,
05:56the rest of those who were
05:58climbing up a sign,
06:00or a tree,
06:02or in a kiosk of a hamburger house,
06:05they were all saved.
06:07I still have that remorse
06:11for not being able to help
06:13that man who was in the box of a truck, right?
06:16That man who decided not to swim
06:19up to that fence
06:21and take the hose.
06:23Well, those are dramatic moments
06:25that one does what one can,
06:27and one cannot rationalize those moments.
06:30They are very terrible things.
06:32Today, the day after the storm,
06:35the flood,
06:36at least in the city's macro-center,
06:38is what you were showing,
06:39desolate,
06:40seeing houses,
06:41stories on the sidewalk,
06:42everything ruined,
06:43everything outside,
06:44the marks of the mud,
06:45because now the water is gone,
06:46but the mud is still there.
06:48Well, it's very, very shocking.
06:49Here, I have a colleague,
06:51we have a colleague,
06:52the guys from the radio,
06:53all those who were working,
06:54lost all their cars.
06:55I mean, the tide passed through here,
06:57through the first floor,
06:58through the ground floor
06:59of Alembia, Uruguay,
07:00and all the cars arrived.
07:02Then they were found
07:03a block, a block and a half,
07:05all chocked,
07:06chocked and full of mud.
07:07Yes.
07:08And the situation today,
07:09what we have understood is
07:11that there is not,
07:13I mean,
07:14the municipal public administration
07:16is not in operation yet.
07:18The issue of schools,
07:20there are many schools
07:21that have been destroyed.
07:22No.
07:23How is it today,
07:24today, Monday,
07:25the beginning of the week
07:26in Bahía Blanca?
07:27No, no, no,
07:28there are no classes,
07:29there are no, well,
07:30private shops
07:31are the ones that can open,
07:32but the center is in a state of war,
07:35the center of the city
07:36is in a state of war,
07:37what is here,
07:38the university district,
07:39everything that is the basin
07:40of the Napostá,
07:41for you to locate
07:42the water overflowed
07:43through two canals,
07:44through the Maldonado Canal
07:45and through the Napostá River.
07:46And everything that was in the middle,
07:47which is like a kind of B,
07:48that flows into the center
07:49of the city,
07:50all that was a kind
07:51of tidal wave
07:52and swept away
07:53with whole neighborhoods,
07:54with houses,
07:55from centers,
07:56from places,
07:57more popular neighborhoods
07:58to the coquettish places
07:59of the Alem Avenue,
08:00as we know it here,
08:01which are the first blocks
08:02of the most important avenue.
08:03No,
08:04it is a drama
08:05that must be
08:06understood
08:07and understood
08:08and understood
08:09and understood
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