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The rains have been lashing heavily in Nariño.
The rains are hitting hard in Nariño.
The minor had disappeared on February 18 due to the collapse, after heavy rains.
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February 27, 2022, 09:26 PM
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The body of the minor who had disappeared in the avalanche of February 18 in the urban area of the municipality of San Pablo, in Nariño, was found this Sunday.
Nine days after the emergency caused by the strong winter that caused the avalanche of the La Brisa creek, the body of Ángela Gabriela Muñoz, 8 years old, was located by residents of the Los Olivos village.
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This area corresponds to the municipality of La Unión, in the north of the department.
The day after the event, units of the Volunteer Firefighters and Civil Defense Corps from the municipalities of San Pablo, La Cruz, La Unión and Belén, with the support of members of the National Army, had begun an intense search near the Mayo River and the creek The breeze.
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This Sunday the news was known that mourns her family and the entire community of that town that kept the hope of finding her alive.
The emergency, from which the population has not yet recovered, left 350 families affected and irreparable losses in homes and institutions, such as a nursing home.
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The persistent winter and the lack of work tools have prevented the search for the minor in a large area of the municipality of San Pablo, in Nariño, after the avalanche caused by the sudden rise of the La Brisa creek in the afternoon last Friday.
“This February 20 we will continue the search for my niece Gabriela Gálvez in São Paulo, I thank everyone for their support,” Cristina Escobar, aunt of the 8-year-old girl who has disappeared since then, wrote on one of the social networks. when the serious emergency occurred.
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According to the revelation of the commander of the San Pablo Volunteer Fire Department, Second Lieutenant José Harold Figueroa, the main objective that the relief agencies have set for themselves is to find the girl, despite the inconveniences that have been recorded in the area.
Almost a hundred rescuers with the support of members of the Public Force are carrying out the work that will allow the girl to be found very soon.
“Unfortunately we have not been able to find it so far,” he assured and confessed that the needs that relief agencies currently have are concentrated in the lack of work tools such as ropes or handles and chainsaws, which allow them to attend in a more efficient way. and fast this kind of emergencies caused by nature.
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Although the General Directorate of Firefighters recently delivered a vertical rescue kit to the municipality, he added that “there are other relief agencies that do not have such equipment, which means that there is a great shortcoming.”
But the other difficulty that the lifeguards and members of the National Police and the Army are facing is that the intense rains do not stop in the municipality, “That same ravine can grow at the least expected moment, so we put our units at risk”.
The La Brisa ravine that caused the avalanche flows into the Mayo River, which at this time registers a very high flow due to the permanent rains, “what we want is for its level to drop so that we can continue the search for the girl.”
The IDEAM forecasts regarding the weather in the region are not very favorable, according to the commander “it seems that much more intense rains could occur in the afternoon hours of this Sunday, then we would have to suspend the search.”
For now, the rescuers of the Fire Department, Civil Defense and the National Army are advancing in the search tasks, as long as the weather conditions allow it in three different areas that have been identified; the first covers from the Los Samanes bridge, where the girl disappeared, to El Cementerio; the second goes from El Cementerio to the La Represa sector and the third from La Represa to La Chorrera.
The preliminary balance
According to the preliminary balance that the authorities have managed to establish, the emergency in that Nariño locality leaves 16 neighborhoods affected, 350 homes with damage, in 12 villages there are difficulties in communication routes and the aqueduct that supplies the population is also out of service. , so now the water is supplied to the inhabitants with tank trucks.
The authorities have faced difficulties in finding the minor.
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The governor of Nariño, Jhon Rojas, who has been in this town in the north of the department since Saturday, said that “we call for solidarity since the nursing home is affected and the elderly are currently in the parish house” .
He pointed out that the population at risk was temporarily transferred to the Normal School, while progress is being made in reestablishing the drinking water service.
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“A technical visit is made to determine the possibility of the community’s return, as long as there is no risk of possible new landslides,” said the sectional president.
From the city of Pasto, a tank car from the Fire Department with a capacity of 2,700 gallons was mobilized on Saturdayas well as 2 dump trucks and 1 platoon from the 23rd Engineer Battalion, in order to help with the cleaning of the roads and homes.
Milena Ortega, the owner of a store who was able to watch helplessly as the force of the current from the creek passed through her house, dragging as many motorcycles and bicycles as it found in its path, commented that “we had never seen this here before, it was horrible because it did not stop to rain and many of the neighbors tried to recover their motorcycles but they could not”.
After the avalanche caused on Friday afternoon by the strong winter in the municipality of San Pablo, north of Nariño, The relief agencies restarted in the early hours of this Saturday the search for a minor who has been missing since Friday afternoon.
One of the many videos recorded in the winter emergency registered in this town with 13,000 inhabitants, shows the moment in which the father of the 8-year-old girl carries her and then enters her into the vehicle, but moments later the car is dragged by the strong current, amid the screams and cries of their relatives and neighbors.
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The mayor of the municipality, Ricardo Emiro Gómez Lasso, when presenting a first assessment of the emergency caused by the overflow of the La Brisa creek, confirmed the unfortunate fact.
“We regret the disappearance of an 8-year-old girl, it is the most negative and disastrous balance of this situation,” he said, adding that relief entities such as Civil Defense and the Volunteer Fire Department are in the continuous search for the minor.
According to the official’s explanation, “the La Brisa creek was dammed at some point along its route and later comes loaded with a large amount of plant material, rocks and mud and reaches the Provivienda, Balcones del Mayo, Villa Cristina, Los Samanes neighborhoods that They are the most affected.”
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More than 100 families that were affected were located in the covered coliseum of the Normal Sagrado Corazón de Jesús in said locality, where they spent their first night after the avalanche occurred.
We hope to make a census of the damage caused in this emergency, I appreciate the support of the mayors who have given us their support
The official stated that the material damage is substantial and that around 350 homes were seriously affected, while the aqueduct also suffered from the effects of winter.
“We hope to make a census of the damage caused in this emergency, I appreciate the support of the mayors who have given us their support with dump trucks and tank cars,” he said.
Starting at 8 am today in San Pablo, the Governor of Nariño, Jhon Rojas, installed the Unified Command Post, accompanied by members of the Municipal Risk Management Council and the National and Departmental Risk Management Unit, as well as representatives of the Municipal Mayor’s Office, National Police and relief agencies.
The sectional president reported that in addition to San Pablo, the municipalities of Los Andes, Santacruz and Túquerres are experiencing a delicate situation as a result of the winter wave and maintained that “from the Government of Nariño we coordinate actions to assist the affected families.”
Other emergencies attended
Regarding the other emergencies caused by the winter that the authorities are attending, it was indicated that in the municipality of Santacruz there was a landslide on the road that leads from the urban area to the Balalaica village, for which the passage of vehicles was enabled. for a single lane.
Meanwhile, in the municipality of Los Andes, a landslide was also registered in the Travesía Alta village, which so far has left 22 families affected and the closure of the road that connects the head with the Carrizal village.
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In Túquerres, another large landslide was reported on the road that leads from Junín to El Pedregal, where there is restricted passage of vehicles in a single lane.
Another of the roads affected in the department is the one that joins the municipalities of Túquerres with Samaniego, where at kilometer 5+400 there was a landslide that for several hours prevented the passage of all kinds of vehicles.
The overflow of the Las Brisas creek that ended in a mudslide from a torrential downpour keeps you on high alert to the inhabitants of the municipality of San Pablo, in the north of Nariño.
The anguished residents from social networks show impressive videos, in which you can see how the streets and avenues of the town became real rivers.
Such is the force of the waters that run along the roads that, in their wake, they dragged vehicles, motorcycles and even defenseless stray dogs.
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The rains broke out during the afternoon hours of this Friday and lasted until night, for which its inhabitants were forced to lock themselves in their houses to evacuate the water that entered them through doors and windows.
Among The neighborhoods most affected by the winter emergency include Los Jardines, Villa Cristina, Balcones del Mayo and San Miguel.
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The waters entered the facilities of the San Carlos Hospital, where some patients had to be transferred to other safer rooms.
The relief agencies have been helpless when dealing with the avalanches, while the authorities of the Local Committee for Risk Management declared the highest alert, given the probability that the rains will continue and the situation will worsen even more.
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At least 50 affected families from the urban area were taken to the coliseum and the school.
San Pablo is a distant town about four hours from Pasto and relief agencies from nearby municipalities, such as La Unión, La Cruz and Belen have traveled to attend to the serious emergency.
The overflow of the Las Brisas creek that ended in a mudslide from a torrential downpour keeps you on high alert to the inhabitants of the municipality of San Pablo, in the north of Nariño.
The anguished residents from social networks show impressive videos, in which you can see how the streets and avenues of the town became real rivers.
Such is the force of the waters that run along the roads that, in their wake, they dragged vehicles, motorcycles and even defenseless stray dogs.
(Also read: Former Coomeva affiliates ask that dramas not continue in new EPS)
The rains broke out during the afternoon hours of this Friday and lasted until night, for which its inhabitants were forced to lock themselves in their houses to evacuate the water that entered them through doors and windows.
Among The neighborhoods most affected by the winter emergency include Los Jardines, Villa Cristina, Balcones del Mayo and San Miguel.
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The waters entered the facilities of the San Carlos Hospital, where some patients had to be transferred to other safer rooms.
The relief agencies have been helpless when dealing with the avalanches, while the authorities of the Local Committee for Risk Management declared the highest alert, given the probability that the rains will continue and the situation will worsen even more.
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At least 50 affected families in the urban area have already been transferred to the coliseum and the school, where they will surely have to spend the night of this Friday.
San Pablo is a distant town about four hours from Pasto and relief agencies from nearby municipalities, such as La Unión, La Cruz and Belen have traveled to attend to the serious emergency.
