To the 3 amigos at News Real studio, thanks for the show.
Along the lines of incident response of the modern age, it usually is focused on an incident command structures, developed over the decades to overcome communication and response logistical problems among agencies/groups. It has its own mass of bureaucratic problems built in. However, agree that the first action is rescue, and then a planning phase and hopefully being able to deal with the public's immediate comfort - not always achievable (in North Carolina it seemed that there was some interference, and local bodies were interrupted).
Following the 2003 Firestorm event near Kelowna, this saw a full review to find out what when well and what went wrong (Valencia will likely do this too). Back then, and a lesson that mimicked what went wrong with the 9/11 response (save the initiating deep state aspects), was in complex communications - poor duplex radio systems, where one hand did not know what the other hand was doing. This is typical and a fear in any incident response.
Good discussion on SOTT.net's monthly videos of events, and the last decade uptick is well noted. And then there is a guy like Randell Carlson, who takes one through the
history of a lot of floods that happened around the world at x, y and z periods that where simply horrific, with no 3d maliciousness back then that triggered.
Perhaps similar, in a mass geographical scale from that of the Valencia region, was the 2013 event where an atmospheric river type system came up from Denver Colorado and parked itself over the mountainous dived between Alberta and BC, and then let go. The rain brought down all the remaining snow and quickly channeled into depressions, creeks and river networks, that then ran for 100 kms. and took out Calgary (and other) low-lying areas. Mass destruction of infrastructure took place.
What was the message? It was that these events will happen, and have happened before, and one never knows when. Generally, they are difficult to accurately predict (so keep aware). The message for the modern age (because many from back in time knew these things) was to not develop in high risk areas, and to over build anything that interacts with basic and landscape level hydrology (culverts, sewer, diversions, bridges etc.). The Roman's probably did a better job then we do today.
my 2 cents.