The roads of Pimenteira and Chelas in Lisbon are closed due to bad weather, announced this Thursday the President of the City Council Carlos Moedas (PSD).
According to the mayor, these are “the most serious situations currently in the city.”
In the Lisbon area, the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere issued an orange warning from 13:28 to 15:00 due to forecast periods of rain, “sometimes heavy and prolonged”, but this has now been downgraded to yellow. anxiety.
More than 100 situations “remain active” in the city of Lisbon, but “none of them are of serious concern” and all are “being dealt with,” Carlos Moedas told reporters at the Operations Command Center in Monsanto, which he visited this afternoon. .
“There were no casualties, but it was a moment of some tension,” Moedas admitted in an assessment made at 5:30 p.m., when the situation was already “fairly calm.”
According to the mayor, “vehicles were damaged and almost sank, especially on the 2nd Circular Highway.”
According to Carlos Moedas, the usual “black spots” when the city of Lisbon suffers from bad weather can “only be resolved with the help of drainage tunnels, the construction of which began this week.”
However, the mayor said that five sensors, which were installed after the last major flood in the city, “served this Thursday” as a signal that the tunnels on Avenida João XXI and Avenida de Berlin should be closed, which happened temporarily in the morning.
These sensors are “water tubes” that, when water reaches a certain level, activate the operations center, allowing the necessary resources to be immediately mobilized.
The coordination center, which brings together civil defense, the Lisbon Fire Regiment, municipal police and volunteer firefighters, “continues to work,” Moedas emphasized.
According to a source from the National Emergency Management and Civil Protection Agency (ANEPC), a source from the National Emergency Management and Civil Protection Agency (ANEPC) told Lusa that between 00:00 and 16:00 this Thursday, there were 354 incidents related to bad The weather was recorded in the Greater Lisbon area.
The same source said the incidents involved flooding (283), road clearing (99), falling trees (42), falling buildings (42) and mass displacement (11) due to heavy rainfall.
The operations involved 1,493 operatives, supported by 480 land plots.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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