Samper fire department reports 275 occurrences in Lisbon

Othe firemen sappers recorded 275 occurrences in Lisbon since 00:00 today related to the passage of depression Charles, of which 75 remained active at 4:30 pm, without causing victims.

According to the source of the Regiment of Fire Shoppers (RSB), the incidents observed were mainly floods, of which 183 occurred in buildings and private spaces, namely clogged gutters, roofing problems, tiles, gutters.

In public spaces there were 43 floods due to water sheets that partially submerged vehicles parked in the public space, as occurred in the Parque das Nações area.

In addition to the floods, 12 cases of fall of coatings, seven falls of structure and seven falls of trees were recorded.

The same source pointed out that, by 16:30, “the trend” was “the decrease” of recorded occurrences, since between 15:00 and 16:00 there were 19 new occurrences, when in the previous hour there were 39 and between 13:00 and 14:00, there were 55 new records.

The depression Charles, which motivated the activation of the alert situation throughout the territory of mainland Portugal from 00:00 to 23:59 today, lost power during the morning and divided into two cores of low pressure, one towards Lisbon and another near the Algarve coast, a region that is being most affected by bad weather, although without significant occurrences so far.

The districts of Lisbon, Setúbal and Santarém today stopped being under red weather warning for rain and passed to the yellow level (the lowest on a scale of three) for precipitation until 18:00.

In Lisbon and Setúbal there are still orange warnings (the second most severe), but due to wind (until 6:00 p.m.) and sea agitation (until 9:00 p.m.), while Santarém has only yellow warnings for rain and wind until 6:00 p.m.

Faro is still at the most severe level until 18:00 as regards the forecast of heavy precipitation and until 21:00 in relation to the wind, with the forecast of “rajadas up to 120 kilometers/hour, and can reach 140 kilometers/hour in the most exposed places”.

The government decided to close non-essential schools and public services in all districts, and more than three hundred flights were cancelled in Lisbon, Faro, Madeira and Porto.

The storm caused more than 200 occurrences of Madeira between Tuesday night and this morning, especially floods, falls of trees and collapses. On the continent, Civil Protection accounted for more than 500 occurrences of the same gender between 00:00 and 12:00.