A total of 307 kilos of gunpowder have been carried by the Valencia Fallas, a few minutes ago, to Manzanares itself. A seven-minute shot, powerful, with a greater amount of gunpowder than usual at Valencia festivities, which brought together hundreds of people and which finally went off without problems and with great expectation. With an ovation for the pyrotechnician included.
A total of 15 people had worked since 2 in the morning on setting up the shot under the orders of José Manuel Crespo, responsible for the pyrotechnics of Llanera de Ranes. The coach has reserved a large aerial bombardment and colored smoke (red for the Madrid flag, along with yellow for the Spanish flag and with blue, for the Senyera) to surprise the public. As pyrotechnician Reyes Martí explained in À Punt, she had prepared 1,500 meters of fireworks and the show contained more than 3,000 firing orders.
To the cry of the Falleras Mayores de Valencia of the legendary “Mister pyrotechnics, the mascletà can begin”, the Pirotecnica Valenciana has lit the fuse of the mascletà in Madrid with hundreds of people waiting in the vicinity of the Puente del Rey to enjoy a show fireworks exported today from Valencia to the Spanish capital.
There had been traffic cuts at the entrances since 12 noon and the branches will open around 1:30 p.m. To guarantee security, Madrid Calle 30 had reinforced with 35 more troops than usual who carry out their work during the Sunday days, including intervention agents, surveillance, conservation, maintenance personnel, Tunnel Control Center operators and engineers.
Finally, the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, was absent from the Puente del Rey, as a sign of mourning for the death of two women this morning in the fire of a nursing home in the city. Yes, he has been at the official reception of the City Council to the Valencian authorities, in which both the mayor of Valencia María José Catalá and the president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón, have participated.
