Officials credited a combination of effective drainage, communication and sheltering practices. "The worst that we feared never came to pass," he said at a news conference this afternoon. San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria said the city managed to avoid the worst possible outcomes of the storm thanks to effective preparation. It's not clear how long residents will be without power and water.Īround 14 Nevada National Guard personnel have been deployed to Mount Charleston for assistance. Power and water have been shut off in the area, and propane tanks, which some residents rely to power their homes, have also been affected, Gonzalez said. Gonzalez said there are about 150 to 200 residents on Mount Charleston, none of whom been made service requests, Gonzalez said. There had been no reports that structures were affected as of this afternoon. Officials are working to evacuate visitors who are staying in cabins and lodges in Mount Charleston but are having a hard time accessing the different subdivisions, Gonzalez said.
“The amount of water we got last night, it’s huge.” Gonzalez said the flooding is the worst he has seen since 2008, when he became fire chief. The flooding started overnight after Spring Mountains National Recreation Area got a large amount of rain, Mount Charleston Fire Chief Jorge Gonzalez said today at a news briefing. No deaths or injuries have been reported following flooding on Mount Charleston in Clark County, Nevada, officials said. It wasn't clear whether weather triggered the emergency. One person at a nearby gas station experienced a medical emergency and was hospitalized, Contreras said.
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Eight people were unable to walk, and, after trial and error, rescuers used the bucket of a bulldozer to transport them to safety, Contreras said. The department rescued 14 patients from a care home near an emerging sinkhole. The proclamation requires approval from the county Board of Supervisors, the station reported.įirefighters in Cathedral City, California, worked overnight and into this morning to rescue people.įire Chief Michael Contreras said his firefighters "responded better than I could ever imagine." Riverside County, where the Coachella Valley is located, declared a state of emergency this afternoon after officials assessed the damage, KTLA-TV of Los Angeles reported.
The area also lacks adequate infrastructure, making the population more vulnerable. The Eastern Coachella Valley - which is made up of the unincorporated rural communities of Thermal, Oasis, Mecca and North Shore - is home to many farmworkers, a population that often lacks legal status and isn’t eligible for unemployment or federal disaster aid. Now, the questions for many farmworkers center on how they will pay for rent and food - all without the day-by-day income they earn because the fields where they normally harvest, plant or till are inaccessible or may be flooded. In the hours after the storm swept through the area, calls to TODEC Legal Center, which serves farmworkers of the Coachella Valley, changed from pleas for rescue to entreaties about finding work. Hilary was the first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years.
There’s a giant tree on the corner, and it bent it, it bent it horribly,” she said. “It seemed like a tornado, because the air went everywhere. Martina Zacarias, a farmworker in the Eastern Coachella Valley, called for help evacuating late Sunday when the wind turned fierce, the streets began flooding and the trees outside her mobile home bent deeply under the power of Tropical Storm Hilary.
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