The Diego Mar­tin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion (DM­BC) ac­ti­vat­ed its Dis­as­ter Man­age­ment Unit at 11:00 a.m. yes­ter­day in re­sponse to heavy rain­fall on May 17 and 18 that re­sult­ed in sev­er­al in­ci­dents across the bor­ough.

Ac­cord­ing to a me­dia re­lease from the Cor­po­ra­tion, field of­fi­cers were prompt­ly dis­patched to as­sess dam­age re­ports, in­clud­ing flood­ing, land­slides, and fall­en trees. 

The sum­ma­ry of in­ci­dents re­ceived in­cludes five re­ports of land­slides, five cas­es of flood­ing, six in­stances of fall­en trees, one re­port of roof dam­age, and one af­fect­ed struc­ture.

As part of the emer­gency re­sponse, the DM­BC dis­trib­uted 11 tar­pau­lins and 25 sand­bags to af­fect­ed res­i­dents. Ad­di­tion­al­ly, two pow­er out­ages re­port­ed in Care­nage and Pe­tit Val­ley due to fall­en trees were re­solved with­in two hours by teams from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (TTEC).

Clear­ing op­er­a­tions for land­slides and de­bris are sched­uled to con­tin­ue on Mon­day, May 19, and in the fol­low­ing days as need­ed.

The Cor­po­ra­tion ex­pressed grat­i­tude to its Dis­as­ter Man­age­ment team, led by Co­or­di­na­tor Ms. Kat­ty Christo­pher, and to its Coun­cil­lors for their con­tin­ued ded­i­ca­tion to the burgess­es of Diego Mar­tin.

DM­BC af­firmed its com­mit­ment to on­go­ing co­or­di­na­tion with the Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment, the Min­istry of the Peo­ple and So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices, and the Na­tion­al Com­mis­sion for Self-Help to ad­dress all re­ports and dam­ages.

Res­i­dents are ad­vised to con­tact the DMU hot­line at 800-DM­RC (3672) for emer­gen­cies and to stay up­dat­ed via the Cor­po­ra­tion’s so­cial me­dia plat­forms. Sand­bags re­main avail­able at the DM­BC’s Or­chid Dri­ve of­fice.