Firefighters attended 260 electrical emergencies during heavy rain in Lima.

Commander Freddy Rivera, chief of the Lima Centro fire department, said about 260 emergencies were activated in the area in the early hours of Tuesday due to a fire threat in electrical installations. Metropolitan of Lima And Callao. It’s because of the rains in the capital under the influence of Cyclone Yaku.

Rivera explained that most of the accidents are due to overloads, short circuits, poor cabling or the use of elements that do not guarantee proper power transmission.

Most of visited emergencies firefighters occurred inside houses, although damage to poles was also reported. He also explained that the infrastructure of residential buildings in the capital is not able to cope with intense rains, which are an indirect consequence of Cyclone Yaku.

“Rainwater filtration has affected facilities that feed houses, especially dilapidated or very old houses. It also affected the interior of the buildings,” he commented in a statement to the Andina news agency.

According to the Lima Central department headquarters, the areas with the most emergencies were San Juan de Lurigancho, Barrios Altos and La Victoria, followed to a lesser extent by Breña and Jesus Maria.

Heavy rain in Lima

Tracks on various roads in the city woke up flooded with rain that continued into the early hours of the morning in parts such as the Luis Fernand Bedoya Reyes Expressway, Javier Prado Avenue and Brasil Avenue.

Puddles of water remained in houses and various establishments, such is the case with a rotaphonist living in the Miraflores district of Lima, who showed the floor of his house, which was flooded. Torrential rains were also reported from La Molina, which caused fear among neighbors.

Senamhi said that the most accumulated rainfall in Lima, which has been recorded since early Monday morning and Tuesday morning, is recorded in the Chorrillos, Chosica and La Molina areas.

The agency announced this on social media. lima Heavy rain is reported, according to weather report No. 46 with a forecast until today, March 14.

Seasons senamhi reported that in the last 24 hours chorrillo accumulated 4.4 millimeters of water, after which Chosika with 3.5 mm and La Molina with 2.6 mm.