Five thousand students from the municipal network of Ribeirão Preto (SP) will start Monday (26) without being able to go to school due to the damage caused by a storm with winds that reached more than 120 km/h in the region. The information was confirmed by Mayor Ricardo Silva (PSD) during a press conference this Sunday (26) with the presence of Governor Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans), to update the city's situation and announce new measures. According to the mayor, 26 schools in the municipal network suffered damage due to the rain and will not be able to receive students at the beginning of the week. The list of units had not been released until the last update of this news. Be part of the g1 Ribeirão e Franca channel on WhatsApp "We want to carry out emergency repairs this week. Engineering teams are carrying out maintenance in schools", he said, citing that 30 teams are involved. Furthermore, Silva confirmed that 29 of the 48 basic health units in the municipality were damaged and four of them will not work this Monday. Tree uprooted at school in Ipiranga, in Ribeirão Preto, SP Social networks During the press conference, the mayor reported that 97% of electricity had already been restored by early morning in the city, with ten thousand properties still without supply, and four of the more than 30 artesian wells that guarantee supply remained inoperative. "We had more than half of the Saerp [Secretaria Municipal de Água e Esgoto] wells disconnected, today we only have four stations disconnected and, at this moment, in partnership with CPFL and the government of São Paulo we are taking generators, our goal is to make 100% of the wells work today", he said. Storm with winds of 122 km/h leaves a trail of destruction in the interior of São Paulo READ ALSO From health to supply: see the balance of damage after the devastation caused by a storm in the interior of SP Retired couple sleeps in the car after having their house destroyed by a falling tree in a storm in the interior of SP The Union will recognize an emergency situation to free up resources for cities in SP after the storm It also mentioned that 87% of the traffic lights, which had a widespread breakdown during the storm, have already returned to operation and that they only 3 avenues - Patriarca, Antônio and Helena Zerrener and Avenida do Café - were closed this Sunday and 100% of public transport is operating. The mayor also reported that, of the municipality's parks, only Luis Carlos Raya, in the South Zone, was open to the population over the weekend. "The rest are closed for security." Ricardo Silva also updated that, of the 400 places in public shelters that were made available, only 12 were used by homeless people, that is, by those who had nowhere to go. Another 1,200 people were left homeless, that is, they had to leave their homes, but managed to find temporary shelter without resorting to public authorities. Images of disruptions caused by rain in the Ribeirão Preto region Edition g1 *This news is being updated. See more news from the region on g1 Ribeirão Preto and Franca VIDEOS: Everything about Ribeirão Preto, Franca and the region
Five thousand students will stop taking classes in Ribeirão Preto after severe storm damage
Five thousand students from the municipal network of Ribeirão Preto (SP) will start Monday (26) without being able to go to school due to the damage caused by a storm with winds that reached more than 120 km/h in the...
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