La Romana: Derrumbe de edificio en construcción deja tres fallecidos

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00:00How many people are alive and how many are dead?

00:07So far we had three people who were taken out alive.

00:11Two people who unfortunately lost their lives with the collapse.

00:17As for the operation, it looked a bit tense and difficult.

00:21What method did you use to reach the people?

00:24As you can see, from the moment we arrived, the first response unit,

00:28we understood that it was a very critical situation

00:32due to the way the collapse of the structure was and that we did not have

00:37in hand the corresponding plans of the structure.

00:40So that made it difficult for us to know what structure there was,

00:44where we could enter, from the moment...

00:46That's why we installed the command center,

00:48so that we could use the knowledge of everything and be able to make an assessment,

00:53since we did not have the plans to be able to determine which areas would be safe or not.

00:57Which provinces joined in support of this unfortunate tragedy?

01:02We have the province of Altagracia, we have four of its municipalities

01:08that joined to give us support.

01:10We have San Pedro de Macorís, Atomayor del Rey, the municipality of Guaymate,

01:15which is in our province, but Caleta, Villahermosa,

01:20they all joined us as a second support unit,

01:23and we have never lost contact with their personnel.

01:27Since Sunday, several units were sent to us,

01:31plus the support, once again, as always, from the Central Romana Corporation,

01:37that we immediately communicated with the mayor,

01:41and they made it available that we only had to ask that they could collaborate

01:45and thus be able to remove the person who was there.

01:49According to this situation that occurred,

01:52do we have any preventive measures that will be taken into account

01:55together with CODIA to make better assessments in place?

01:58Well, it really is a topic that needs to be analyzed.

02:02You know that the mayor's office is the one that authorizes the plans,

02:06the mayor's office is the one that authorizes them.

02:09It has nothing to do with the building itself.

02:14It really has to do with CODIA and other institutions.

02:17Now, we are proposing that the city council should provide

02:22an accompaniment and that we propose a resolution or an ordinance

02:27so that the buildings, all of them, without distinction,

02:32have their due plans, that is, to come and build,

02:36to throw a cart and go up, and that they only pay a tax, a fine.

02:40No, that must change.

02:43It's difficult.

02:45In a situation like this, where we don't have the emergency services,

02:50a plan will tell us how many rooms, how many buildings are there.

02:55That has to be resolved, and we have to move forward.

02:59In that sense, we have to move forward,

03:02and we are asking the citizens from now on.

03:05We must change that way of doing things.

03:09If you take a piece of paper and say, look, I want two rooms,

03:13you have to make plans, and you have to submit them to the mayor's office

03:18so that when all of this happens, the firefighters, the civil defense,

03:22the Red Cross, work with their plans and say,

03:25look, this is what's here, this is what's there.

03:28This is the structure, and we are going to see how it's going to go in, but with a plan.

03:32According to the ordinance, it is mandatory that all buildings that go beyond a certain level

03:37have a contingency plan in the firefighters' body,

03:40to evaluate their approval.

03:42This is unfortunate, but we have to, from this same scenario,

03:46send the message to the engineers, constructors, architects,

03:51so that later, when the inspectors show up at the construction site,

03:55that the plans are not deposited as per the law,

03:59they are established, and they don't show off, because it's our duty.

04:03Today, if we had counted on the plans deposited by the firefighters,

04:07with the approval that we would have had,

04:09it would only have been enough for us to look for that plan in our system,

04:13to sit down and be able to do what we had to do,

04:16to put life into it, to be able to make a map,

04:20a recognition to be able to establish.

04:22With the plans, this is not going to prevent the collapse,

04:26but it gives us the facility to know where we could penetrate,

04:30which was the safe area, or which was not,

04:32and, by the way, guarantee, because they are architects,

04:36they are engineers that we have, the firefighters,

04:38who are going to evaluate the emergency system,

04:40precisely, and the risks that must be taken.

04:42Mr. Mayor, I want to point out something.

04:44When I talk about accompaniment, I mean that,

04:47every evening, or every so often,

04:50the inspectors of the mayor's office will come and check,

04:54and say, well, this structure is going well,

04:56or this is not good, this has to be modified.

04:59I understand that we must work like this,

05:01so that the mayor's office does not just say,

05:03look, he authorized the plan, he authorized the project,

05:06and that's it, no.

05:07Ah, he charged the auditors, and that's it, no.

05:09We are going to work to provide accompaniment and follow-up

05:12to the buildings, and to comply with everything in the law,

05:15everything established, so that we can have

05:18correct buildings, correct.

05:21Mayor, I have come.

05:23Legally, what happens?

05:25Well, there are many things that must be analyzed.

05:27First, the families, all that.

05:29It is a topic that I prefer to leave to the public,

05:34to the other institutions that have to do directly

05:36with the legalization, the penalization,

05:39and we are already maintaining.

05:41Today, thank God, we finished this project,

05:44this situation.

05:46Very unfortunate, they lost two lives.

05:49Very sad, because also the building,

05:53which serves us for nothing, unfortunately,

05:56and it shows that there has been a great invasion.

05:58So, thank God, today the camp is already being built,

06:01and we are going to rest, and we are going to continue

06:04the day for tomorrow.

06:05Thank you very much.

06:06They already passed the number that was being worked on,

06:10and we have already completed the operations.

06:13However, now we are going to proceed to internalize the area,

06:18putting the canine units to work,

06:22but based on the number that was established

06:26of five people, we have concluded based on that number.

06:30How many dead were extinguished down there?

06:32Three bodies were recovered and two with life.

06:35Two with life and two dead, he told me.

06:38Well, that part of the corresponding body,

06:41the INASI, will determine.

06:43Meanwhile, any building that can represent

06:47a danger in the area.

06:48The area with the room will be restricted.

06:51This is evident that the local authorities are already

06:53taking care of it, and in the course of tomorrow,

06:57the organizations that have the competence

06:59will determine the steps to be taken.

07:01The call to the population and some relatives

07:03who are desperate, of course, for their reasons.

07:05Well, look, even if a person dies,

07:08you know, an entire population.

07:10It doesn't matter nationality, it doesn't matter anything.

07:13Simply, at this moment, I think the issue is that

07:16the prayers of each person are with the one who is alive

07:19and those who may have died,

07:21to give peace to their families,

07:23which is difficult at this moment.

07:24Your name and last name?

07:25Edwin Olivares, director of the COVID.

07:27Thank you very much.

07:28Thank you very much, very kind.

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