While the country was on Hurricane Freddy Alert 3, the National Emergency Operations Command (NEOC) deployed ninety-eight teams to scour the country. The fire department made forty-eight interventions on the ground, while elements of the Special Mobile Force (SMF) had to make twenty-two descents to clear roads. As of Monday evening, February 20, seven hundred and seventy-six people were in the one hundred and seventy-six refuge centers in the country.
On Monday evening, February 20, three roads were still impassable. These were the road from Anse La Raie to Cap-Malheureux, Bras d’Eau and rue d’Estaing, Port-Louis (Champ de Mars). During the day, different teams on the ground cleared obstructions from falling trees or branches throughout the island. Technicians from the Central Electricity Board (CEB) were also working to restore power or secure areas before the intervention of police and firefighters.
On the Pailles highway during the morning, police officers intervened promptly to secure this section of the road towards the capital after a PVC pipe with an electric cable inside was torn off by the force of the wind and was on the road.
In Sainte-Croix, the fall of a tree next to the Abercrombie police station, caused a power cut for some subscribers of the road Pamplemousses, Sainte Croix to the road Cocoterie, Roche-Bois. A team of police officers went to Chitrakoot, Vallée des Prêtres to sensitize residents on the risk of landslides and the need to evacuate for their safety.
At the medical level, the Emergency Medical Service (Samu) has received a thousand requests. However, only sixteen requests, including one for a pregnant woman who gave birth, were considered as emergencies. Because it is on board of the vehicles of the SMF that the personnel of the Samu circulated.
