The Dana del 29 October 2024 let 228 muertos, thousands of affected and a question that still does not answer: How could something like this happen in the 21st century. This Tuesday, on the eve of the first anniversary of the tragedy, Journalist Sergi Pitarch presents in the Fnac Form of Valencia The chaos hours, a work that reconstructs with surgical precision and narrative tension one of the most devastating days that Valencia has experienced in recent times.
The book is not a typical chronicle. It is a journalistic immersion in the bowels of the disaster. Pitarch, director of the Valencian edition ofelDiario.es, is based on dozens of interviews with victims, family, rescue teams, meteorologists and institutional officials to reconstruct minute by minute what happened in those 24 fatal hours. Since the 7:30 in the morning of the day 29 until the same time the next day, The story advances with the rhythm of a thriller and documentary rigor., showing how an announced alert turned into a flood that devastated towns, It collapsed roads and plunged the population into panic
But The chaos hours It is not limited to narrating the obvious. The book points out errors, raises uncomfortable questions and demands answers. Why were experts' warnings ignored?? What went wrong in emergency coordination? Where was President Mazón when the alerts began to arrive?? What was discussed—or not—during the mysterious lunch at El Ventorro? The work does not stop at the surface. Go deeper, bare, questions.
