Rains on Sunday night caused a landslide near the La Madera creek, in Barrio Nuevo, a border area between the municipality of Bello and Medellín, without leaving people injured or dead, as confirmed by the authorities.
The detachment of the bank was recorded on video, which although it did not affect inhabited homes, generated anxiety for the inhabitants of the sector, who can live there thanks to a popular action they won to remain in this settlement.
Wber Zapata Lopera, Secretary of Risk Management and Disaster Attention of Bello, reported that the area had already been evacuated since December, when the Mayor’s Office of Bello declared the manifest urgency and public calamity, but the heavy rains generated this emergency.
The ravine had been covered by 95%, this forced us to make a manifest urgency, a public calamity
“The ravine had been covered by 95%, this forced us to make a manifest urgency, a public calamity. Mitigation works have already been carried out so that the cause is normal and in addition to that we are doing hydraulic, hydrological, geotechnical studies, to be able to determine actions through designs that help us mitigate the risk that we have in the place,” said Zapata.
This Sunday night, the Bello Fire Department attended the emergency and since this morning technical and social personnel from Risk Management and Public Works are on site, they are evaluating to see what actions should be continued to prevent it from occurring. a greater emergency.
After the review, the risk management agencies determined that no permanent or temporary evacuation should be carried out, and no additional action was determined.
“Recommendations were given to the surrounding people and we had a garage there that had been fractured and they we asked them to remove everything that was inside it” added the secretary.
Zapata asked the Medellín Mayor’s Office to work together and invest resources in this sector in order to mitigate risk, support studies, design and execution of works in a timely manner.
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