{"id":57619,"date":"2024-11-01T17:48:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T16:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=57619"},"modified":"2025-11-01T01:45:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T00:45:25","slug":"france-offered-200-firefighters-to-spain-but-the-government-rejected-them-it-is-not-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/11\/01\/france-offered-200-firefighters-to-spain-but-the-government-rejected-them-it-is-not-necessary\/","title":{"rendered":"France offered 200 firefighters to Spain but the government rejected them: \u201cIt is not necessary\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The catastrophe caused by the cold drop in Spain is generating gestures of solidarity from other countries towards Spain.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/11\/01\/the-shameful-situation-shown-by-iker-jimenez-from-the-ground-zero-of-the-cold-drop\/\">The shameful situation shown by Iker Jim\u00e9nez from the ground zero of the cold drop<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/10\/31\/the-incomprehensible-delay-of-the-government-in-deploying-the-army-due-to-the-cold-drop\/\">The incomprehensible delay of the government in deploying the Army due to the cold drop<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><strong>Several governments, such as those of Portugal, El Salvador, Argentina, France, the United States, Germany and Ireland, have offered help to Spain,<\/strong> some of them expressing their willingness to send personnel to help those affected by the cold snap. <strong>France offered 200 firefighters and their vehicles,<\/strong> according to the French Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau. However, his Spanish counterpart, <strong>the socialist Fernando Grande-Marlaska, rejected this French help, claiming that \"it is not necessary.\"<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to Retailleau, <strong>Marlaska told him that <em>\"we are in a first phase in which we are trying to organize ourselves, we have our own means, we are mobilizing the Army.\"<\/em><\/strong> The French minister's statements can be heard in <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BFMTV\/status\/1852016873493143735\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this video posted yesterday by the French channel BFM2<\/a>1 (you can activate the automatic subtitles in English in the bottom bar of the player):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Francia ofreci\u00f3 bomberos al gobierno de S\u00e1nchez pero Marlaska los rechaz\u00f3\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oQDtW44SEtM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>These statements come as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/11\/01\/the-shameful-situation-shown-by-iker-jimenez-from-the-ground-zero-of-the-cold-drop\/\">many residents are denouncing the abandonment they suffer in the affected areas<\/a> and in the midst of a wave of criticism for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/10\/31\/the-incomprehensible-delay-of-the-government-in-deploying-the-army-due-to-the-cold-drop\/\">the slow and insufficient deployment of the Armed Forces<\/a>, creating a situation in which <strong>many residents have been without water, electricity, internet or mobile phone service for two days, and suffering looting<\/strong>. It is unusual and outrageous that in a situation like this, the government is refusing to accept help from other countries.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: Efe. Fernando Grande-Marlaska, Minister of the Interior, with Pedro S\u00e1nchez, President of the Government, in the Congress of Deputies.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The catastrophe caused by the cold drop in Spain is generating gestures of solidarity from other countries towards Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10398],"tags":[22984,22967,3422,10575,2721,11462],"class_list":["post-57619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-spain","tag-bruno-retailleau","tag-cold-drop-disaster-in-spain-in-october-2024","tag-fernando-grande-marlaska","tag-france","tag-pedro-sanchez-castejon","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}