Andalusia’s 112 service handled 155 emergencies linked to Storm Bruna between Monday and 18.30 on Tuesday. A second storm has now prompted new restrictions across the western coast.
The regional government has placed the Plan de Emergencia ante el Riesgo de Inundaciones en Andalucía (PERI) in emergency phase, operational situation 1, because of Storm Charles. In-person classes are suspended in 30 municipalities across Huelva, Cádiz and the Campo de Gibraltar. Day centres are also closed in the affected areas.
The closures cover Aljaraque, Almonte, Ayamonte, Cartaya, Huelva, Isla Cristina, Lepe, Lucena del Puerto, Moguer, Palos de la Frontera, Punta Umbría and Villablanca in Huelva. In Cádiz province, they apply in Barbate, Cádiz, Chiclana de la Frontera, Chipiona, Conil de la Frontera, El Puerto de Santa María, Puerto Real, Rota, San Fernando, Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Trebujena and Vejer de la Frontera. The six Campo de Gibraltar municipalities are Algeciras, Los Barrios, Castellar de la Frontera, La Línea de la Concepción, San Roque and Tarifa.
Forecast gusts could reach 120 km/h along the Huelva and Cádiz coast, with the strongest effects expected from midday Wednesday. The Junta says Charles may have less impact than first forecast because its approach has shifted north-west through Portugal. Wind remains the main risk.
Municipalities under an orange wind warning must keep parks and gardens closed for the warning period. The Junta has also prohibited crossing flooded fords and watercourses. It advised against outdoor activities near trees and asked coastal councils to restrict access to parts of the Huelva and Cádiz shoreline and the western Málaga coast as far as Málaga city.
In Cádiz city, the council has suspended street cleaning, rubbish collection, park maintenance, urban maintenance and the upkeep of children’s parks while the Aemet orange warning is in force. The warning was due to end between 12.00 and 21.00 on Wednesday. The council said services could remain suspended if conditions were unsuitable for resuming work. Deputy Mayor for the Environment and Urban Maintenance José Carlos Teruel said the decision followed exceptional weather conditions and recommendations from the relevant authorities, in remarks translated from Spanish.
The school closures also led the Asamblea Andaluza por la Educación Pública to cancel planned information pickets at the University of Huelva, a noon gathering outside the Territorial Delegation for Educational Development and its participation in an afternoon demonstration. The organisation said it would move its activity online.
Bruna’s 155 emergency callouts included 61 incidents involving natural hazards, mainly flooding in homes, streets and roads. The 112 service also recorded 31 reports of collapses or fallen branches and objects, alongside 24 traffic incidents. Those storm-related calls are separate from the judicial proceedings covered in a rail crash report.
Seville accounted for 68 of Bruna’s emergency calls, followed by Cádiz with 38 and Huelva and Málaga with 15 each. One woman, aged 80, was taken to Juan Ramón Jiménez hospital after a large branch fell on her in Huelva city. The Junta said no evacuations, confinements or relocations had been necessary.
