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Up to 70% of Cartagena registers floods, as stated by the mayor of Cartagena, William Dau Chamatt, this Saturday morning, after the rains generated in the last hours in Cartagena by tropical storm Iota.
Through a video on his Facebook account ‘Let’s save Cartagena’, the president indicated from the Risk Management Office, in coordination with relief agencies, a sweep is being carried out throughout the city to establish the magnitude of the The damage caused by the natural phenomenon that transits the Caribbean Sea and could turn into a hurricane in the next few hours. (Read here: Tropical storm Iota could become a hurricane: Ideam)
Dau said that, due to flooding in a large part of the city, a public calamity will be declared in the next few hours, in order to make use of resources and respond more quickly to emergencies.
“Today we will be decreeing public calamity due to heavy rains, with this we will be able to immediately hire the equipment required to intervene in the canals and pump out the dammed water,” said the president.
The mayor added that he is making progress in talks with the private sector so that they can help, through donations, to attend to the victims left by this emergency in Cartagena.
Among the neighborhoods and sectors that are flooded are Villa Rosa, Olaya, Pasacaballos, Bayunca, Policarpa, Bernardo Jaramillo, Bazurto market, Zenú de Membrillal Indigenous council, Albornoz, Antonio José de Sucre, Puerta de Hierro, Colinas de Villa Barraza, El Socorro, San José de los Campanos, La Princesa, the industrial sector of Mamonal, Petares, El Pozón, Torices, Villa Gloria, Marlinda, Boston, San Francisco, Villa Hermosa and the village of Arroyo de Piedra. (It may interest you: Landslides and floods, the emergencies generated by Iota in Cartagena)
Landslides are also reported in the La Paz sector of the Albornoz neighborhood, in Pablo VI, in Nelson Mandela, Los Deseos sector, in the Las Brisas neighborhood and in the Lomas del Marión sector.
The Advisory Office for Disaster Risk Management of Cartagena indicated that it will continue to monitor, together with the Neighborhood Emergency Committees (COMBAS) and relief agencies, all reports.
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