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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.