Vanessa Silva stated that the competent Social Security services “will assess the need to relocate” the families from the two flooded houses near the local school, with street cleaning operations currently underway.
The Azores Regional Civil Protection and Fire Service (SRPCBA) has updated the number of incidents on the island of São Miguel to 32, following adverse weather conditions.
In the municipality of Ponta Delgada, two people needed to be relocated due to the flooding of a house.
Still in this municipality, a landslide affected two homes, with no casualties reported.
According to the SRPCBA, the reported situations occurred in the municipalities of Ponta Delgada, Lagoa, and Ribeira Grande.
Firefighters, municipal Civil Protection services, and the Public Security Police have been present at the scenes of the incidents, providing support and resolving various situations.
