Hurricane Fiona leaves one dead and nearly 800 displaced in the Dominican Republic

Published:
09/20/2022
09:55 (UTC+2)


Last update:
09/20/2022
10:36 (UTC+2)

In addition, thousands of people are without electricity, the rivers are overflowing, and several trees, as well as a bridge, have been knocked down by the storm. The entire territory remains on alert.

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Hurricane Fiona has caused the death of a 72-year-old man this monday and 789 people have had to be displaced from their homes in the Dominican Republic. The fatal accident occurred in the municipality of Nagua (northeast of the country), when the man was trying to prune a tree in the patio of his house when it fell on him, as reported by the director of Civil Defense in that city, Franklyn Taveras.

In addition, the hurricane has left to more than 11,500 people without electricityoverflowing rivers, the collapse of a bridge near the Duarte highway -which has the largest influx of traffic in the country- and the downing of trees and power lines, according to a preliminary report from the Emergency Operations Center (COE).

The consequences of the meteorological phenomenon, category 1 on the Saffir-Simpson scale out of a maximum of 5, led the Executive to declare emergency zone the provinces most affected by the rains and winds associated with the hurricane: La Altagracia, La Romana, El Seibo, Hato Mayor and Monte Plata, in the east, and María Trinidad Sánchez, Duarte and Samaná, in the northeast.

The Dominican president, Luis Abinader, announced this Monday at a press conference that today, September 20, he will move to one of the areas most damaged by the hurricane, La Altagracia, where one of the two operations centers will be installed to serve the needs caused by Fiona, the first hurricane to hit this Caribbean country in the last eighteen years.

forecasts for today

The authorities predict that the storm will continue to hit the country in the areas most affected by the hurricane and maintain conditions of alert the entire territoryincluding the Dominican capital and its province, where the rains have had a minimal impact.