An important part of Generalitat, the building that houses Labora’s employment service’s headquarters in Ibiand the State Public Employment Agency (Sepe) crashed early this Sundaycausing Significant property damage but no injuries. the event took place around 5.30 in the morningas they explained to this newspaper local police and neighbors from San Juan Bosco street where the collapsed side of the building is and all the rubble is gone. Fortunately, At that time, the rubble did not reach the houses, nor did any pedestrians or vehicles pass by.this prevented a tragedy from happening.
afternoon, The rubble continued to cover the entire area of the street, nearly burying a parked and badly damaged car.; Also another car was less affected. According to police sources, a neighbor warned that a very loud noise was waking him up and when he looked into the street he saw that the Labora y el Sepe building had collapsed. But tenants of other houses “almost didn’t even notice” unless offered in the field An agent patrol with firefighters to confirm there were no casualties.
They moved up to Ibi lEva Hernández, managing director of Labora Planning and Services, and Pere Beneyto, director of Sepe in the Community of Valencia, said: co-supervising the place mayor of the city, Rafael Serralta and representatives of the technical staff and employees of the plants. Hernández explained to this newspaper: “Nine months ago a broken beam was identified and repaired, but three months ago cracks appeared again”, thus evacuating that wing of the building.. The area of the property where staff work and serve the public not affected for collapse.
The General Manager added: technical report just arrived on friday received information about the state of the building, which was not given time for examination. now obviously the property is completely unusedLike this it is urgent to seek a new temporary headquarters until it is decided which solution to implement.. For now, as the director of Sepe in the Community has pointed out to this paper, This Monday users will be at the door and from Tuesday they will almost certainly be directed to the nearest office, the office in Alcoy.. The headquarters of Labora and Sepe in Ibi include the neighbors of Castalla and Onil; 40,000 people live between the three municipalities.
Temporary headquarters in a town hall
IMM mayor Accompanied then Hernández and Beneyto The town hall of the old Pilen factory used as the headquarters and meeting place of different associations and groupsand where is heo Temporary offices of Labora and Sepe are more likely to be set up to replace the damaged ones.. Serralta also stated that this is expected. On the same Sunday, the municipal Affairs brigade will begin removing the rubble.and San Juan Bosco street is open during Monday. As soon as it is found cordoned off, but residents have access to their homeswith due care.
Antonio Garcia, neighbor one of the houses in front of the collapsed building “A strange noise was heard around 5:30 and then I heard people talking”but in that moment to sleep could not identify what could it be for “Then the local police came” to check that no one was harmed and then You’ve already seen the collapse and how far-reaching it is.. Rubble remained at the doors of the houses with a small entrance courtyard; Garcia points to this some stones splashed on the roofbut small in size.
But this neighbor He is very angry with what happened: “If it happens on Monday morning, not Sunday morning, there will be a massacre here”, indicates. Although it is not the main street, the fact that it is next to the damaged administrative building means that there is a certain amount of traffic on weekdays. Moreover, Also here, in another wing of the same building, is the headquarters of the Foia de Castalla Entrepreneurs Association (Ibiae).. The facility was built in the 1960s and has undergone different reforms and expansions over time.