Failure in services after the passage of Hurricane ‘Otis’: this is how the restoration of electricity and communications is going
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Rosa Icela RodríguezSecretary of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), stated that the Hurricane ‘Otis’ It was an “atypical event” due to its rapid evolution, after it went from a tropical storm to a category 5 in less than 12 hours, which was an “unlikely scenario” since neither CENAPRED nor international forecasts had any indications of the magnitude that would reach or that would affect Acapulco.
In the morning conference of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the federal official presented the progress that have occurred in the last 24 hours regarding the attention to damage caused by the hurricane in Warriorsuch as failures in the services of electricity, internet and telephoneas well as in hospitals, airports and even in the seismic alert system.
The head of the SSPC explained that since yesterday, personnel from the Operational Coordination were deployed in the affected area, in addition to issuing bulletins from the Early Warning System for Tropical Cyclones and tours of the places with damage.
He pointed out that the main material damages were in the road sector, since on the roads Mexico-Acapulco, Chilpancingo-Acapulco, Chilpancingo-Acapulco There were fallen trees, landslides and overflowing bodies of water, so the Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation deployed a brigade of more than 900 workers, 600 vehicles and more than 200 pieces of machinery to reopen circulation.
He highlighted that the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) reported damage to the infrastructure of Regional General Hospital number 1, Vicente Guerrero, where 200 patients had to be transferred to other units.
While in the case of Renaissance General Hospitalbelonging to the Health sector, had flooding on the ground floor, but it is expected that in 24 hours it will resume all its services.
In it airport sectorindicated that operations at the Acapulco International Airport were suspended until further notice.
However, in this regard, López Obrador announced that the Secretary of Communications and Transportation, Jorge Nuño, informed him that airlines Volaris, Viva Aerobus and Aeroméxico They will support the transfer of tourists who were stranded in Guerrero, with flights that will leave the airport in Zihuatanejo.
In what corresponds to the electric sectorthe Security Secretariat specified that the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) has restored the supply for 40% of the affected users, and it is expected that in the coming days, the service will operate at 100 percent.
Finally, he mentioned that work continues to fully restore the service by the Mexican Seismic Alert Systemafter 27 sensors on the coasts of Michoacán, Guerrero and Oaxaca were disconnected with the entry of the hurricane.
He recalled that for this reason, in the event that a large-magnitude earthquake is generated with an epicenter in one of the affected areas, the population will not be able to be warned in time as is usually the case.
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