La ciudad de Bahía Blanca enfrenta una devastadora inundación que ha dejado un saldo de 13 muertos y más de 1300 evacuados. Las autoridades han enviado fondos para paliar la situación, pero los daños son incalculables. La búsqueda de las hermanas Pilar y Delfina Hecker, desaparecidas tras ser entregadas a un conductor en medio del caos, conmueve a la comunidad. Las fuertes lluvias desbordaron cauces naturales, agravando el desastre en una ciudad vulnerable por su ubicación geográfica. El gobierno y los equipos de rescate trabajan incansablemente para mitigar el impacto de esta tragedia.
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00:00This is the disaster area, where we can see the incalculable damage to the city of Bahía Blanca.
00:08Exclusive images, we say 325,000 inhabitants.
00:12A city destroyed, according to the governor himself, until now.
00:16The national government, only to alleviate these first hours, sent funds for 10 billion pesos.
00:22But they will serve as a palliative in these first hours because the damage can not be calculated yet.
00:28So far, the official information speaks of 13 dead.
00:32Of the 13 dead, 11 have been identified.
00:361,300 people have been evacuated.
00:40And it is desperately sought at this time to Pilar and Delfina Hecker, 4 and 1 year old,
00:47who were passed hand in hand by their parents, Marina and Andrés,
00:52who traveled in a car, in a Gol Trend, on the night of the disaster.
00:56Rubén Salazar, who drove a red postal service truck,
01:00who even a recent witness, who picked up Alejandro Pueblas,
01:04said he saw her the moment she began to complicate due to the force of the current.
01:09It is the story that at this time moves beyond all this disaster that we are seeing.
01:15We insist incalculable. These are exclusive images of our drone.
01:20The water sought the natural waterways, the channels that nature always had,
01:27where man rectified, clogged, built, filled.
01:33But when so much water falls, in a very short time, nature does its job
01:37and the water seeks the exit where it always came out.
01:40Among them, Guille, these natural channels, worked precisely by the human hand,
01:46are the Arroyo Napostá and the Maldonado Canal,
01:49which is precisely Bahía Blanca, from the point of view of the water,
01:53is in the lower basin of these two great, let's say, forms of water flow,
01:59towards what is the sea.
02:01And as it is so low, there are even studies of the CONICET of 2012,
02:07which show that there are really complications regarding this,
02:11when there are heavy rains.
02:13Why? Because it is much lower and because, in addition,
02:16in the areas where, for example, there are streets that are not paved,
02:20that sediment is falling, it is reaching, let's say, the center of the city
02:26and what does it do? It covers all the drains of the city,
02:30which complicates, and well, obviously this could have been one of the causes,
02:34but surely it has been a multi-cause.
02:36There it was clearly seen in the previous image,
02:38how the street had become the natural cause,
02:41which had been, at the time, obviously, where the water came down.
02:44Already in an image like this, the red truck has been located,
02:48where, at the time, Marina and Andrés gave the four-year-old
02:51sisters Pilar and Delfina to Rubén Salazar,
02:54the driver of the red truck, of the red van,
02:59which provides services for a mail company.
03:02Salazar had gone to Bahía Blanca to make the BTB.
03:05He came across this situation, a truck driver said,
03:08I saw that the red truck began to have problems,
03:11and I stepped back, I was in front of him,
03:13he did not see the girls, but he assures that a truck driver
03:16did see them on the truck, and what we know,
03:19from what Mariana told, Hecker, the girl's aunt,
03:23in an image like this, aerial, the truck was located
03:27in an area that is still inaccessible.
03:29Who knows, we can't see it, right? With the drone.
03:31Look, there are places that are inaccessible.
03:35You are seeing it in this aerial shot,
03:37that you can clearly observe reality,
03:40but there are places where you will not be able to get,
03:42not even walking.
03:44Route 3, for example, has many cuts,
03:48at kilometer 711, at 738 it is cut,
03:53because there are sinkholes, that is, it fell,
03:55the asphalt moved, and there, for example,
03:58at kilometer 712, a kind of bridge is being made,
04:01because we see that it is working in the place.
04:04At 222, it is passable until Empalme with Route 3,
04:08Route 33, impassable, Route 35, impassable,
04:12Route 228 too, and total cut at Route 222,
04:1629, 229.
04:18This situation gives us a dimension of what could have been experienced,
04:21and notice that this is not the algae moment,
04:23this is just the rest of what was left after the storm,
04:26but you see, an avenue, because in fact,
04:28you see the streetlights of the avenue,
04:30the water that covers the avenue from boat to boat,
04:34which clearly has a boulevard,
04:36which drags the cars and everything that is in its way,
04:40and for you to calculate what could have happened
04:42with Marina and Andrés.
04:44Look, there you see a white car,
04:46a white car, another block behind.
04:50Imagine that situation with the water passing above the windshield,
04:55and you opening the door with your four-year-old daughters,
04:59trying to find shelter,
05:01just so you, who are watching, can imagine the situation,
05:04without being able to see where the route is.
05:06Notice that there you are on a street,
05:08and you don't know where the street is.
05:10Imagine the same thing on a route,
05:12and you clearly see, in something higher,
05:14the possibility of saving your daughters.
05:16That's where they give Pilar and Adelphi to Salazar,
05:20looking for security.
05:22Imagine, in a current like this,
05:24how long you can stand without being dragged.
05:28Of course.
05:29He took her to her mother four kilometers away.
05:31And look, where does the water get to this man?
05:34A little higher than the knee.
05:35Imagine if it gets to his chest.
05:37Because if the family decided to give them,
05:39it's because it was obviously very high.
05:41Also taking into account, Guille,
05:43that they left the house precisely for this.
05:46They left Bahía Blanca to the other side.
05:49Trying to avoid the storm.