Shocking footage has emerged showing a baby being winched up to a helicopter amid Spain’s devastating floods.
A helmeted fireman can be seen holding the harnessed tot tightly as the two are pulled up to a chopper high above the ground.
Beneath them, only treetops and roofs can be seen poking out of the murky floodwater, which stretches for as far as the eye can see.
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The clip was posted to social media on Thursday (31 Oct) by the Provincial Fire Department Consortium (CPBA) of Alicante.
It wrote: “A precious moment when we at the CPBA were able to rescue a one-year-old child who had been isolated with his mother in their home yesterday in the Riola area.
“We wish all those affected by this terrible cold drop the best for the future.”
Another shocking clip from Wednesday (30 Oct) shows gallons of brown water thundering down residential streets in Valencia.
The water levels are so high that some houses are covered up to their roofs.
Another clip from Spain’s third city shows how an everyday hero in waist-deep water shattered a glass door with a makeshift baton.
After opening the door, he helps a woman and two children get inside, where they can get to the safety of the upper floors.
In more dispiriting scenes, a woman films looters with her phone while yelling: “Get out of here! I’ve recorded your face!”
As she enters her family’s plundered store, she shouts at the men and women inside: “You’re being recorded! Get out!
“Why? Because I’m the boss’s daughter, and the police are on the way. I’ve got your face on tape, you b*stard!”
At the time of reporting, the National Police had arrested 39 people, including minors, for stealing from flood-affected businesses.
Several stolen items, including jewellery, have already been recovered, as reported by Need To Know.
Another clip, also from Valencia, shows how a bulky DHL lorry was slammed into overpass columns on a flooded dip in the road below.
And a video from Cabanes, Castellón province, shows how a house finally crumbled after being battered by rain and floodwater.
A “cold drop” is an isolated depression at high levels.
The adverse weather caused by Spain’s recent cold drop has claimed at least 158 lives, with 155 in the Valencia region alone.
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