This Tuesday, authorities of the National Disaster Prevention and Response System (Sinapred) held a meeting to monitor the passage of front system in the country, pointing out that More than 24 thousand customers remain without electricity supply.
The deputy director of National Disaster Prevention and Response Service (Senapred), Miguel Ortiz, was the one who provided the information, indicating that “The main emergency situations are mainly associated with flooding and power outages. without reporting any affected people at the moment.”
Along with this, he pointed out that they would be 23,900 customers without electricity supplybeing 18,884 users in the Metropolitan Region. According to the superintendent of Electricity and Fuel, Martha Cabezaare mainly the communes of Maipú and Lampa that remain for more than 12 hours without electricity.
“In proportions of 6,000 in the case of Lampa and 3,700 in the case of Maipú” Cabeza explained. He added that “yesterday a was recorded peak at 2 in the afternoon of 63,000 customers without supply and from there it has fluctuated around 60,000 for the first few hours, but in recent hours it has been in the order of the same proportions as now, 23,000, 30,000.”
For his part, Ortiz indicated that The critical points of this frontal system have been mainly the power outage, flooding and the cut on Route 68.
The latter, as explained by the deputy director of Senapred, is being “resolved.” “Let’s remember that today the interference ends and a lot of the population is going to return to the city of Santiago, therefore, our focus was throughout the night and throughout this morning”he commented
“Both routes heading east and west have at least one of their tracks enabled and during this afternoon we hope it will be completely clear.”he added.
The deputy director of Senapred, Miguel Ortiz addressed the situation of those affected by the February forest fires in the Valparaíso Region and how they have had to deal with precipitation due to the advance of the frontal system.
Along these lines, he stated that during the morning of this Tuesday A videoconference was held with authorities from the Valparaíso Region and that the rehabilitation infrastructure that was put in place due to the fire so far has not reported emergencies or complicating situations.
“It must be emphasized that there is joint work with the municipalities and there is a very good reaction from the population to collaborate and provide information that allows a quick reaction from the teams.”said Ortiz.
Following this sense, the deputy director of Senapred said that “here there is a contingency plan that we must remember that is activated in the Valparaíso Region, which is multidisciplinary, but that also activates the emergency housing construction companies so that in In the event that an emergency situation is reported, it is responded to in a timely and clear manner. Here the beneficiaries, what we ask and remind them, is that they approach the municipalities and indicate what the complication is so that we can attend to it in a timely and precise manner.”.
