Overview

• Savia care home management asserts in court filings that no direct warnings of flood risk were communicated to them on October 29, 2024, despite escalating meteorological alerts.
• Aemet raised Paiporta’s alert level to red at 9:41 AM on the day of the flood, but the care home received no notification of the heightened risk.
• Floodwaters breached the residence at 7:30 PM, rapidly inundating the ground floor where 91 residents were located, resulting in six fatalities.
• The first official flood-risk alert from the regional government was sent at 8:11 PM, after the facility was already submerged and communications were severed.
• The judicial investigation, led by Judge Nuria Ruiz Tobarra, is examining emergency management failures and potential liabilities in the tragedy.