The director of Táchira Civil Protection, Yesnardo Canal reported that despite the culmination of the tropical waves that affected the region, in this period the system of troughs begins, a situation that will maintain the rainfall and the state of alert.
Canal asserted that the institution in its different offices in the municipalities will continue to supervise the water tributaries, as well as the daily monitoring of the vulnerable areas that have been harmed in the last hours.
"It is necessary to keep the community informed and generate early warnings that help people and communities to protect themselves," he said.
trough system
The director of Táchira Civil Protection stressed that the rainy season continues with the beginning of troughs that go from December to March, according to those indicated by the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, INAMEH.
"We will be reporting the behavior of these troughs on our territory, and preventing risk areas, to mitigate the possibility of tragedies generated by rainfall," he asserted.
constant supervision
In the Cárdenas municipality (Táriba) in the Barrancas sector, Civil Protection officials carried out a thorough inspection in the truth of San Sebastián where it was found that there are 4 houses affected as a result of the "undermining and weakening of the slope" due "by effect of washing by rainwater”, according to the report of the prevention body.
"The houses present fissures, cracks and fractures at the level of the floor slabs, walls, collapse of beams and columns, exposure of internal reinforcing steel is also observed", reports the inspection minute.
Given the anomalies registered, the evictions of the 4 houses were carried out since the damage that is evident represents a potential risk for the families that live in the structures.
Eviction of 4 houses is fulfilled
House # S-10. Owner F. Rúgeles
House # 12-32 owner B. Apolinar
House # S-09 owner D. Ramírez
Housing that was unoccupied at the time
The supervision had the support of the Cárdenas Municipal Police and the Táchira Police (Politáchira) security forces, in order to immediately activate the provisions issued by the rescue and salvage force.
In the same way, the inspection was carried out in sectors of the Antonio Rómulo Costa municipality (Las Mesas) in the Piedra de Moler sector, where damages were evidenced in the road that left the vehicular passage incommunicado to the Las Flores, La Pajuilera and Salomón sectors. .
In the case of risk mitigation actions, Civil Protection maintains reviews, in the 29 municipalities of the state, of homes, vulnerable sectors, water tributaries and drains collapsed by sediment drag.
They insist that the communities must maintain constant communication with the institute in order to act as quickly as the presence of any anomaly is required in the face of continued rainfall.
