“We have a lot of people wanting to participate in this cleaning operation. The city already looks different, but there is still a lot to clean in the municipality”, says the president of Leiria City Council, Gonçalo Lopes.
Hundreds of volunteers, of all ages, are gathered next to the Leiria Municipal Stadium to help clean the city’s streets. Among them is the president of the City Council, Gonçalo Lopes, who calls for a “spirit of unity” for the coming days.
“We have a lot of people wanting to participate in this cleaning operation. The city already looks different, but there is still a lot to clean in the municipality”, says the mayor of Leiria.
Gonçalo Lopes says that the City Council’s main concern is to replace the roof of the houses that were damaged by Depression Kristin.
The passage of depression Kristin through mainland Portugal, on Wednesday, left a trail of destruction, causing at least five deaths, according to Civil Protection, several injured and displaced. The Câmara da Marinha Grande counts yet another fatality in the municipality.
Falling trees and structures, cutting or conditioning of roads and transport services, especially railway lines, closing schools and power, water and communications cuts were the main material consequences of the storm.
Leiria, where the depression entered the territory, Coimbra and Santarém are the districts that recorded the most damage.
The Government declared a state of calamity between 00:00 on Wednesday and 23:59 on February 1st for around 60 municipalities, a number that could increase.
