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Bermejo Floods Isolate Salta Communities as Relief Teams Step Up Care and Evacuations

Authorities await Civil Aviation clearance to launch airlifts that can reach isolated families.

Overview

  • Road access to El Chañaral is cut, leaving piraguas as the only way in or out and forcing many residents to pay for boat transport to buy essentials.
  • In La Misión, floodwaters inundated the school and suspended classes as about five kilometers of wetlands keep the community cut off.
  • An integrated operation with doctors, social workers, firefighters, police and Lacustre units is providing medical care, vaccinations and medicines.
  • Health teams report gastroenteritis and respiratory illnesses, are working on dengue prevention and have not detected positive dengue cases.
  • Evacuations continue with most high‑risk residents already relocated, and responders plan supply flights pending Civil Aviation approval as they warn of another rise from upstream rains.