A landslide in the La Esneda neighborhood has left several homes buried, leaving 3 people dead, 4 people injured, including 3 minors who have been treated. The emergency occurred this morning, several families had to evacuate while rescue teams mobilized to address the situation.
Local authorities coordinated with rescue teams, firefighters from Dosquebradas and Pereira, CARDER, the army, the ombudsman’s office and relief agencies an operation to search and rescue trapped people and provide support to those affected.
The mayor in charge and planning secretary Lina Marcela Mondragón took stock of the situation, expressing the intense work of the rescue teams to help the families, and also referred to the situation of the residents of the neighborhood, where a rescue protocol was made. evacuation.
“We have 3 homes affected and with a preventive evacuation of 16 homes to which we are providing attention and characterization from the risk management,” commented the mayor in charge Lina Marcela Mondragón.
Likewise, Lina Marcela Mondragón stated that “we are currently asking the community that it is necessary to evacuate for prevention” since there are families who have not wanted to comply with the order to leave the place and go to the shelters that were set up to care for those affected. for this fact.
Likewise, Lina Marcela called on the National Risk Unit to attend to the emergency and to those affected by this event, since at this time, many of the families will have to be in the shelters, but a relocation of the families must be carried out. residents of the place in order to prevent another unfortunate event.
Dosquebradas fire lieutenant José Joaquín Ocampo, declared after closing the search and rescue work, the last body of a young woman was found who had been trapped in the collapse, meanwhile the work focused on the evacuation of critical areas which can be affected by more landslides.
According to José Joaquín Ocampo, “monitoring is continuing with a portion of surface material that may be loose,” which is why an evacuation recommendation was made to avoid tragedies such as those that occurred in the morning hours.