Ronda asks not to donate more clothes for the evacuated residents of Grazalema and Benaoján

The Ronda City Council, which is hosting 400 displaced residents from Grazalema (Cádiz) and about twenty from the town of Benaoján in Málaga due to the effects of the storm series, has requested this Saturday no more clothing donations for these people.

After the people of Ronda have rallied around the displaced, including businesses, associations, groups, and individuals, the City Council has expressed gratitude for the support but informs that no more clothing is needed and that if necessary, they would make a new call.

At the El Fuerte sports center, where the displaced arrived before being distributed to hotels and tourist apartments and which serves as a meeting point, between 500 and 600 meals are offered, as reported by the Andalusian Regional Government.

None of the 700 available places for displaced people in temporary shelters in the province of Málaga have been used, as they have been accommodated in the offered establishments.

A total of 586 people have been evacuated in the province of Málaga during this episode of heavy rain.

Grazalema was completely evacuated due to the risk of landslides amid the heavy rainfall these days, while in the case of Estación de Benaoján, it was due to a potential flood from the rising Guadiaro River.

About twenty evacuees due to the storm arrive at the temporary shelter of El Secadero, in Casares

On Saturday afternoon, a new group of residents had to be evacuated and have arrived at the temporary shelter set up in the Los Almendros school in the town of El Secadero, in Casares, and further evacuations are not ruled out in the coming hours, as reported by the City Council.

The relocation is a preventative measure adopted this Saturday by the Advanced Command Post set up by the Regional Government in Casares Costa, planned for about a hundred people from El Secadero and San Martín del Tesorillo as it coordinates the emergency response in both population centers. The decision was made in anticipation of a rise in the water level of the Guadiaro River due to the precipitation brought by the new Atlantic storm, Marta, mainly in the Serranía de Ronda.