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The town of Cartagena is on orange alert by strong gusts of wind that could reach 90 kilometers per hour between six o'clock and eight o'clock tonight, as reported by sources Cartagena Fire Station.
Fire the staff has been strengthened to deal with incidents as they occur throughout the day and are affected by falling trees and facade elements.
Civil Protection has also reinforced its troops in the early hours of this morning, to monitor the course of the streams by rainfall in the last 24 hours, estimated at about 40 liters per square meter.
The first incidents have been occurring since 4:30 am when there was a power outage in the Plaza of Spain and later in the plaza deBastarreche that affected street lighting and traffic light network.
Local Police traveled to the region needed to regulate the traffic while the deficiencies are corrected.
It also had the local police to intervene to divert traffic in the Plaza of Spain, as a result of the flooding of the road, where they build the underground parking, with consequent Atascosa early hours of the morning.
The main interventions of the Fire Department by the wind began to register on the six o'clock on a falling palm tree on a block with horses in the Los Belones and sanitation from a balcony on the third floor of a building Calle San Cristóbal.
Since then there have been continuous interventions mainly by falling trees.
The most prominent has been about ten o'clock when a eucalyptus tree has fallen on a classroom of children of Public School Azorín, without any reported damage in any of the school or building.
Other interventions by falling trees have occurred in Pozo Estrecho, Calle Juan Fernandez with Trafalgar and the access road to the Faro de Navidad.
Also the wind has bent a sign on the road to La Union in El Algar, shot down a telephone pole and white respondents was necessary to clean the facade of the old cinema in the Plaza Central Lake by falling rubble.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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