The seriously injured who were admitted to the hospital on Terceira Island on Friday, after being struck by lightning, are stable and others have already been discharged, the hospital chief said on Sunday.
Speaking to journalists in Angra do Heroísmo, on Terceira Island, José Fernando Gomes, president of the Board of Directors of the Santo Espírito Hospital, confirmed that, after a lightning strike on Friday night, in a house from Vila Nova, in the municipality of Praia da Vitória, five people were admitted to the hospital, four adults and one child.
Admissions were made around 23:00 local time (another time in Lisbon) on Friday.
José Fernando Gomes said that “the injured spent the night under observation in the emergency room, one of them being discharged a few hours later,” and “two other people were also discharged this morning, an adult and a child being hospitalized. ”.
According to the official, “none of the situations was more serious, the people who remain hospitalized are clinically stable, and can also be discharged today.”
The intense rain that was felt at Praia da Vitória, at Terceira, from Quinta-Feira, caused 15 occurrences, secondly declared, at Sexta-Feira, to the President of the Chamber, anticipating that 53 people from the camping area not Paul were displaced to A school.
Quoted in a press release, Vânia Ferreira said that the greatest situations occurred in Largo da Batalha, affecting 23 parked vehicles, and there were also floods in some houses and in the camping area in Paul, forcing the relocation of 53 campers. .
The campers were located at the Praia da Vitória Vocational School.
Meanwhile, the municipality has seen water supply cuts, particularly in Santa Cruz, along with the overflow of some streams and the obstruction of roads.
Vânia Ferreira said that “most of the situations have already been overcome”, and “it has already been possible to restore the water supply in several places, with the municipal services resolving the situation in the urban center of Santa Cruz”.
“For example, traffic has already been restored on Rua Nova and Caminho do Facho. We closed the Facho staircase as a precaution and we have our operatives working in various areas”, declared the mayor.
After the ongoing cleaning work, road traffic on Rua do Cruzeiro (Fontinhas) and Rua das Covas (São Brás) will be restricted until Monday.
The monitoring of the events involved is carried out by the Municipality of Praia da Vitória, the Regional Civil Protection and Fire Service of the Azores, the Praia da Vitória Volunteer Firefighters, the Public Security Police, the Praia Ambiente municipal company and the Government. Azores Region. .
The Portuguese Institute of the Sea and the Atmosphere (IPMA) has extended, for its part, the yellow warning for the central group of the Azores until 9:00 p.m. local time (one more hour in Lisbon), due to the rains, sometimes intense, that have been registered.
The IPMA predicts that heavy rains in the central group, which includes the islands of Terceira, Faial, Pico, São Jorge and Graciosa, may be accompanied by thunderstorms.
The yellow warning is the third most serious on the scale and means that there are risks for certain activities.
Source: Observadora
