“My body is still scared, because it is a warning that this section of track is not right and it has to be checked. That’s where we are”, confessed yesterday the mayor of La Guancha, Antonio Hernández, after the landslides occurred on the road El Roque, popularly known as El Convento, and very busy, because, through it, the new cemetery is accessed and the school bus circulates that transports the students of the Plus Ultra school every day.
In addition, it is close to population centers such as Las Cucharas and Tierra Costa, and is also used by many residents to access the town center from the coastal area, as it is wide and without excessive slopes, the purpose for which it was built.
The alderman and the head of the Local Police were notified after 10:00 p.m. by 1-1-2 and immediately went to the scene. “The danger was tremendous because of the darkness, so we immediately proceeded to cut it off,” he said.
Although other similar scares have been experienced in La Guancha, it is the first time that such a large drop in volume and weight has occurred. So much so that 15 trailers were necessary to be able to remove the material from the road, between previously crushed stones and debris.
Despite this, he acted quickly. The mayor published at dawn on his social networks that the road had been cut off and asked that traffic in the area be avoided. Later, the municipal government urgently approved a contract to remove the material as quickly as possible and commissioned the relevant reports, given that, being a municipal road, all powers fall to the City Council.
An initial document will be delivered today, but a more detailed one will be issued next week in which both provisional solutions and those to be undertaken in the long term will be contemplated. In any case, Antonio Hernández made it clear “that he is not in a hurry to open it until he has all the reports that guarantee the safety of the vehicles and the people who travel in them, because if the collapse had occurred during the day, we do not know the consequences. that I would have had.” The government group also got in touch with the Cabildo de Tenerife Highway area, whose officials promised to visit the area today and advise the municipal technicians.
According to the digital newspaper CanariasNow, the Seismic Network of the National Geographic Institute (IGN) in the Canary Islands detected at that time the signals generated by the collapse with greater amplitude at the station located in the municipal area.
There were neighbors who commented on the mayor’s Facebook that they heard the noise around 10:58 p.m. on Monday.
