Spain, death toll from storm Adam rises to five

The death toll in Spain from storm Adam, which hit the provinces of Valencia and Alicante with particular violence with accumulations exceeding 700 liters per square meter, has risen to at least five. This was reported by Il Sole 24 Ore, based on a report by the LaPresse agency, and ANSA.

Rescue teams, led by the Military Emergency Unit and the Guardia Civil, have saved 496 people using helicopters and improvised means in the areas hardest hit by the rains. The intensity of the accumulations, exceeding 700 liters per square meter in some areas, explains the scale of the response deployed by Spanish rescue forces in recent hours.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez traveled to the affected areas in the Valencian Community, according to the same source. The head of government’s presence in the emergency areas marks the level of institutional attention given to a crisis unfolding just two years after the previous, more serious one.

The emergency does indeed bring attention back to a region already devastated two years ago by the Dana of October 29, 2024, which caused 241 deaths. The reference to that event, present in the coverage of these days, serves to gauge the scale of the new emergency against a precedent that remains the benchmark for hydrogeological risk management in the area, both for the authorities and for the affected population.

At the moment, the figure of five victims is the most up-to-date one made known by the cited sources; any revisions to the toll, should they come, will be reported as such, in line with the evolution of the rescue operations still underway in the area.