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The wind gusts up to 70 kilometers yesterday afternoon struck the city of Cartagena, resulted in a fall from a palm tree on Royal Street, two trees in the plaza of the island and the walk of Alfonso XII and the danger the collapse of a fence on the football pitch Garden City.
The wind and the presence of red palm weevil contributed to 16:50 hours on a palm tree about seven feet to bend the trunk and fell on the street on Calle Real.
Troops rushed to the place of Fire, Local Police and municipal Gardens, for removal.
As explained Gardens Service sources, so far the red palm weevil plague had affected specimens of Canary Island palms, which are there in the Heroes of Cavite and Muralla del Mar. The existing Royal Street are the date palm species, the weevil had attacked the very few cases.
The presence of the beetle in this issue has alerted municipal services, that notwithstanding these days were making sanitation pruning Real street and dealing with preventive protection products to copies of existing date palms there.
The same sources have indicated that from now on will continue with preventive treatments and closely monitor the symptoms in this species.
Since its inception, the red palm weevil pest has had an inexorable progress: not an effective treatment to 100 percent.
Between 2006, when the first cases were reported until December 31, 2009, is estimated to have disappeared for this reason some 1,200 specimens of palm trees in the municipality.
OTHER INCIDENTS BY THE WIND
Other findings by the wind were recorded at around six o'clock in the afternoon at the island and the walk of Alfonso XII.
In the square of the island broke a branch from the main trunk of a tree and landed on the street, while on the ride of Alfonso XII, was precipitated another large branch, preventing access to a garage.
Finally, about half past eight p.m. Firefighters had to move to the municipal golf course Garden City, between the streets and Félix Martí Carmen Conde Alpera, where one of the fences were moved a lot by the wind and was in danger of falling over vehicles parked on the street.
The National Meteorological Agency maintained for the yellow Tuesday, with winds that could reach 70 kilometers per hour.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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