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The arrival of the cold drop is causing heavy rains in the Mediterranean, a situation that has caused significant flooding in towns in the provinces of Valencia, Alicante or Murcia , among others. The media has displaced its reporters to count the last hour on the ground, but a connection from La Sexta has received many criticisms for endangering one of its informants.

In the video the journalist Paco Cerdán is seen informing about the bad weather conditions in Cieza (Murcia). He is in the middle of a flood on a cut road and explains the difficulties he has, since he can barely walk or move and the water is crashing hard against his knees.

"Look at the speed and the fierceness of the water. It is almost impossible to walk," Antonio García Ferreras, who is on the set of Al Rojo Vivo , tells him during the live connection .

It also affects the consequences it is having for the locality. "All this water that comes down dragging things from the mountain goes to Cieza . Some waterlogged streets and even road cuts begin to register, they have closed the park ..."

An unnecessary risk situation that has not gone unnoticed for emergency services, which these days are insisting heavily on precaution to avoid dislikes. Thus, the 112 of Murcia , through its Twitter account, has wanted to fight the space of La Sexta for this coverage.

"Maybe putting the reporter at risk is not the best idea. Please, avoid risk situations," they said, before launching a final warning: " Floods don't warn and can kill."

Network reactions

The message has been highly applauded on social networks and a large number of user comments have proliferated in the Ferreras program reproaching this live connection.

"That is not information, it is spectacle. It is useless," said one of the Internet users. "No news, important as it may be, deserves to put anyone's life at risk," said another.

The reporter in the snow

Already in 2017 La Sexta lived a similar case with a reporter in the mountains of Madrid who had to make a connection in the snowfall . Then, the image went viral because the journalist was six degrees below zero.

"I'm completely freezing. Look at my hair and the mic, " he said. The coverage then also received many criticisms for being completely unnecessary.

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