The Minister of the Interior said that the state of natural disaster would be recognized at “next weekend” in Guadeloupe where the Fiona storm caused major floods and makes one dead.
Le Monde with AFP
The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, announced, Sunday, September 18, that the state of natural disaster would be recognized in “end of next week” in Guadeloupe where the Fiona storm caused major floods and a dead person. “With Jean-François Carenco (Minister Delegate in charge of Overseas), we decided to accelerate the recognition procedure for the state of natural disaster,” wrote Gérald Darmanin on Twitter. “As soon as the end of next week , we will sign it with my government colleagues. The state will be there for our Guadeloupe compatriots, “he added.
The sudden flood of a river made a victim, a 54 -year -old man, who died “carried away with his house” by the waves, on the night of Friday to Saturday, announced, Saturday, the prefecture of the Guadeloupe region. “The flood of the Fathers river took a home in Basse-Terre and its occupant,” said the prefect on Saturday.
according to the prefecture, 445 Gendarmes and gendarmes and gendarmes and gendarmes and gendarmes and gendarmes and gendarmes and gendarmes and gendarmes and gendarmes 62 police officers were deployed as well as 250 firefighters. The emergency services dealt with 1,011 calls and made 151 interventions since the arrival of the Fiona storm. It is “in the South Basse-Terre” that the rescue interventions were concentrated, said to the France-Presse agency the commander of the firefighters, Félix Anthorn-Habazac.
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With JF Carenco, we decided to accelerate the procedure for the recognition of the Catastr statement… https://t.co/ukzv5ukhy1
Vigilance descended to the yellow level
Sixth tropical system of the season in the Atlantic, the Fiona storm had moved away Saturday from the archipelago. Meteorological vigilance is ironed Sunday at the yellow level for “heavy rains and thunderstorms”, after 24 hours of red vigilance, according to a published forecasting bulletin Sunday at 6 am local (noon, Paris time). Météo-France announced a “return to green” for the risk-summary risk and strong winds.
Now far from several hundred kilometers from Guadeloupe, the Fiona storm “continues its devastating route to Puerto Rico with winds of 100 km/h with gusts at 140 km/h”, noted Météo-France.
In its bulletin, the Guadeloupe meteorological center described as “very impressive” the cumulative rain measured since the start of the episode, on the night of Friday to Saturday, such as the “534 mm in St-Claude ( Matouba) “or the” 502 mm in Capesterre Belle-Eau (Neufchâteau) “.
In this archipelago of small West Indies very concerned with climate change, the state of natural disaster had already been recognized in May for several municipalities affected at the end of April by floods that had left a dead.