Night of many interventions, which have lived municipal services Local Police, Fire Protection and Civi l, by strong gusts of wind up to 90 miles per hour have been recorded, mainly between ten pm and three in the morning.
At that time the Fire have performed more than 70 operations, mainly by falling billboards, uprooted trees and branches that were precipitated on shelters and vehicles, dumpsters drag and release cornices.
Fortunately, both local police and firefighters, not recorded in any of its incidents damage in people, although substantial property damage.
Especially significant have been registered by falling palm trees on the Alameda de San Antón interventions; pines on the old road to Murcia and San Felix, and other trees in the Barrio de la Concepción, Trafalgar Street, Ă gel Bruna, Health Center Our Lady of Charity and El Llano, among many others.
Also the area of the Media Room where car dealerships focus has been affected by the starting sheet and canopies of these facilities.
This morning the municipal Parks and Gardens had to settle outstanding thirty incidents of this type, for various areas of the municipality.
Also.
the sparks produced in power lines is targeted as the most likely cause of outbreaks of fire that occurred on the slopes of Mount Galeras, which was quickly suppressed by Navy personnel, and behind the Artillery Barracks in Tentegorra.
There was also a fire in a bakery.
The special virulence Wind and social networks were also breeding grounds for the spread of many hoaxes on the actual situation.
Specifically spread one referring to the town had gone on red alert and classes in schools and colleges, which was denied by quickly suspending Civil Protection.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena