Bad weather: Number of homeless in Madeira increased to nine

O Madeira Regional Civil Protection Service (SRPC) today signaled four more homeless people in Funchal, following the bad weather, raising the total number to nine.

The SRPC had already informed, on Saturday, that five people were displaced, in the municipality of Santa Cruz, due to a flood in the dwelling.

Today, source of civil protection has indicated to Lusa that there are records of four more displaced persons, two due to floods, and two other people because of the fall of a structure in the residence.

“ The situations were accompanied by their municipal civil protection services in conjunction with the social action services of the municipalities and the Institute of Social Security of Madeira ", said the same source.

According to the latest published balance sheet, the SRPC recorded 145 occurrences due to the passage of Bruna depression, between 08:00 Saturday and 10:00 today, mainly related to falls of trees and floods.

In this period, 50 falls of trees, 35 floods, 20 road cleanings and signs of danger were signaled, and 15 mass movements, according to a situation reported by civil protection.

In addition to these occurrences, there were patrols and surveillance (9), falls of construction elements in built structures (5), collapses of structures (4), falls of electrical networks (5), removals of elements of fall danger (2) and a discharge.

The SRPC also points out that 346 operational and 140 technical resources were mobilized.

Funchal was the most frequent municipality (66), followed by Santa Cruz (31), Câmara de Lobos (16), Calheta (9), Porto Moniz (7), Machico (6), São Vicente (4), Ribeira Brava (4), Ponta do Sol (1) and Santana (1).

Various accesses are also conditioned or closed in the high and coastal areas of Funchal and Câmara de Lobos municipalities, as well as all classified pedestrian routes in the region.

The region is being affected by depression Bruna, with strong rain, wind and maritime agitation, which has also affected the movement at Madeira International Airport.

The stopovers of two cruise ships were also cancelled, which were to arrive at the port of Funchal between today and Monday.

The IPMA issued orange warnings due to precipitation and wind at the end of Saturday, but at this time only yellow warnings are in effect.

The captaincy of Porto do Funchal prolonged the very strong wind warnings and strong maritime agitation, until 06:00 on Monday, based on the weather forecasts of IPMA.

The mooring of vessels should be strengthened, the walks by the sea and in exposed areas should be avoided, as well as the practice of playful fishing, the captaincy recommended.