The authorities will continue the second day of tours in the municipality.
After the torrential downpour that was recorded this Tuesday in the Caroní municipality, the official balance was 200 affected families, in 167 reports of affected homes in Ciudad Guayana, for a total of 639 people.
This Wednesday the authorities continued the verifications in the 11 parishes of the Caroní municipality.
The G/D Edgar Colina Reyes, Secretary of Citizen Security of the Bolívar State Government, reported that on the instructions of President Nicolás Maduro and Governor Ángel Marcano, a diagnosis of the effects is being made to attend to each case, affirming that there was only material damage.
tours and donations
According to a press release, the Secretary of Citizen Security of the state of Bolívar indicated that together with a multidisciplinary team between the Bolivarian National Guard GNB, the Bolivarian National Police, Municipal Firefighters, state and municipal Civil Protection, they were deployed in the different areas to attend directly to families.
They detailed in the official statement in sectors such as El Roble Clorindo Manuel Paredes sector located in the Simón Bolívar parish, Campo Rojo, La Laguna, Sabana de Piedra, Los Sabanales, Barrio Ricaurte, La Llovizna (Dalla Costa), Chirica Veja, Francisca Duarte ( Chirica), Invasion February 4 via Upata (Vista al Sol).
Other areas such as Pozo Verde, Los Naranjos, Angosturita 1, are also included in the list of victims.
In response to the community of Campo Rojo, which suffered the most damage, the governor of Bolívar state, through the Secretariat of Citizen Security, together with the Mayor’s Office of Caroní, donated mattresses, drinking water, bags of food, and medicine.
Until now, the donation of mattresses, drinking water, bags of food and medicine has been carried out, weeding days have also been carried out in the affected areas.
Despite the immediate actions by the agencies, residents of La Laja were also cut off by the flooding of the well-known curve of the sector, the only access road to urban planning, they insisted to the government entities inspecting the site.
The Arenales and Campo Rojo
Overflowing sewers, fallen walls, even the total loss of belongings was what the residents of both communities went through, visited this Wednesday by the PRIMICIA team.
Yusleidis Palomo, a resident of the sector, commented that the downpour “swept away” all of her belongings, “it started with the detachment of the fence, that was what made the rain enter; we were left with nothing, the clothes, the corotos, the mattresses, all of that was gone”.
Another of those affected in that sector was Williannys Guerrero, whose heavy rainfall caused a sewer that runs under the street to be covered.
“As it was covered, the water began to collapse, the street looked like a swimming pool, and all the water that entered my house broke the filling that is in the back wall,” he emphasized.
Carmen Maita, brigade chief of the “Los Arenales UD-150” community council, commented that due to the rain on Tuesday, the sewers collapsed and overflowed, so she did not hesitate to say that they are in an emergency.
He asserted that Libertador Street is the most impassable and chaotic when it comes to passing through it, because an undermining is forming that might affect the white water pipe, “if that part collapses there, the pipe will break and We are going to have an epidemic because the whites are going to join the served ones,” said the brigade chief.
He also added that until Wednesday night, several neighbors were removing water and soil from their homes. He pointed out that Civil Protection personnel informed him that they are carrying out inspections to carry out the necessary surveys. They demand answers as soon as possible.
Another of the sectors affected by the rain was Campo Rojo, where around 80 homes were affected, according to what was counted by the Mayor’s Office of Caroní.
Eidy Carreño, a resident of the sector, indicated that Bolívar Street was one of the most affected, since most of the houses were flooded. Once the rain stopped a bit, the community was left without electricity.
They had to take some electrical appliances and mattresses out of the houses so that they would dry with the sun on Wednesday morning, “that was horrible, the belongings floated from so much water that was inside, a television and a refrigerator also got wet and we cannot test them for see if they work because there is no light”. Carreño also said that snakes began to appear in the depths of the houses. In addition, Campo Rojo does not have a drainage service, which causes the garbage to collapse and come dragging.
Another of those affected was Denny Barboza, who stated that he had no material losses in his home, only flooding, “he drew water, following a while he came back in, I mounted the corotos on top of the table and the bed so as not to lose them.”
Once the rain stopped, the water began to go down so the streets were full of mud and with a putrid smell.
Other neighbors assured that the most affected were not transferred to shelters and only received drinking water.
They ask for help from the UD-145
Two houses were affected by the rains on UD-145 in San Félix. Neighbors make a call to Civil Protection and between governments for an inspection of the place.
