After the wave of earthquakes that occurred yesterday, Saturday, November 12, in the Biobío region after the magnitude 6.2 tremor west of Lebu, Mayor Cristián Peña gave details to emmol of what was experienced and reported that, for tomorrow, Monday, classes are suspended in schools to review the infrastructure.
According to the balance provided by Peña, after holding a meeting with other local authorities such as the presidential delegate of the province of Arauco, Humberto Toro, as a result of the tremor, “slight damage” was recorded, such as “cracks in some school floors, which are Also falls from the ceilings of false ceilings of some dependencies and fall of the merchandise gondolas”.
Although he clarified there are no victims or accidents. The most complex thing, according to the mayor, was communicating the official information to the population after the tremor, since the commune was left without electricity after the event.
He said that “the call is once again for the telephone companies to improve their conditions. The power cut yesterday can be understood, because there was a strong tremor, but it is not understood that the telephone companies do not have the necessary backup for their clients. when the power goes out.
The mayor of Lebu reported that today “electricity has already recovered by 90%” in the commune. Only a few sectors remain without electricity.
Balance of local authorities
The presidential delegate of the Biobío Region, Daniela Dresdner, made a flyover with Carabineros this Sunday morning to review the situation on the coasts.
He explained about the power outages in Lebu and Coronel that “we have recovered a large part of the supply cut, but there are still some families in the Lebu district without electricity.”
“We are in contact with the electricity companies so that these problems are solved as soon as possible,” he added.
Humberto Toro stated that in the morning meeting the issue of the power outage was analyzed, but also “the telephone disconnection. We were disconnected for practically more than an hour and it made it difficult for us to deliver information to the community, and at the same time the situation with drinking water.
