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A preliminary report indicates that the storm caused flooding in roads, power cuts and alterations in mobility in this city.
Later, firefighters reported that three people suffered a power discharge when they performed a fiddle and touched a home service cable.
Around 1:55 in the afternoon a downpour was unleashed accompanied by winds that caused alarm in different sectors, especially, from the center, northwest and south of the capital of Valle del Cauca.
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The storm caused flooding in streets and avenues where the traffic of cars and motorcyclists was difficult.
Caleños reported their concern about electric shocks, one of which shook much of the city at around 2:35 in the afternoon.
After 5:00 in the afternoon the firefighters were called when three people suffered injuries due to electric shock, on 72C street with 3B street in the Floralia neighborhood.
One of them was transferred by private ambulance, without further information; the second is a 30-year-old male patient with third-degree burns on his limbs and back, who was transferred to Clínica Amiga.
Also, by ambulance to the Joaquín Paz Borrero Hospital, a 22-year-old male patient was taken, who suffered first and second degree burns.
A fire extinguishing machine with 4 units and three ambulances with 6 paramedics came to the site. It was ruled out that it was lightning. It was a shock when they touched a power grid.
In the town of Montebello, to the north of the city, there was an alert for a decrease of ‘aguabarro’ in hillside streets.
“It rains torrentially in our territory, we have all our units on alert, flood prevention activities with cleaning of canals must continue to be carried out. I ask all drivers of the city to take maximum precaution,” was the message from Mayor Jorge Iván Ospina .
Emcali began the attention of calls for power cuts in the south. From the Campoalegre sector, he was alerted to the fall of a tree.
