DomRep residents begin clean-up after hurricane

Hurricane Fiona hit the Dominican Republic on Monday, destroying homes and other structures along its path.Locals in a neighborhood in Punta Cana began the slow clean-up process, picking up the pieces left behind as the powerful winds ripped roofs from their homes and knocked down trees.

In the eastern Dominican Republic's La Altagracia province, where Hurricane Fiona first made contact with the island, trees and power poles were toppled by the winds, leaving an undetermined number of homes without power.The winds of more than 140 kilometers per hour with which the phenomenon arrived, detached the roofs, doors and windows of the humblest houses in the communities of the east and northeast of the country.

On Monday morning, the Emergency Operations Center (COE) issued a maximum weather alert (red alert) for 15 provinces in the east, east and north of the country, and an intermediate warning (yellow alert) for 16 provinces in the south and west.Emergency and civil protection authorities reported 54 homes affected, 789 people displaced to safer areas and 519 citizens in shelters.