Overview

• Magistrate Nuria Ruiz Tobarra gave the Júcar River Authority three days to state if it deployed agents on October 29, 2024, and to specify the locations of any in‑person monitoring points.
• The judge reiterated that, under Law 13/2010, directing the emergency and controlling ravines was an autonomous responsibility of the Generalitat, not the CHJ.
• Newly filed recordings show an Emergencies technician asked around 12:45–13:15 for forest firefighters watching the Poyo and Magro to check the Paiporta scale, receiving “we’ll see,” while a separate 12:23 call captured a fire officer asking, “For what?”.
• Case documents indicate forest firefighters left the Poyo area in Chiva around 14:30–15:00 and CHJ agents ended shifts between 15:00 and 17:00, before the Poyo overflowed near 17:40, even though hydrological alerts for the Poyo and Magro were never lifted.
• The investigation is focused on who ordered the withdrawals, whether 112 was notified, and the judge’s view that continuous visual surveillance—including on tributaries without gauges—should have been maintained throughout the alert.