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Hurricane Fiona Heads to Bermuda, up to 8 Dead in Puerto Rico
President Joe Biden on Wednesday approved a disaster declaration for Puerto Rico, which makes federal funding available for individuals affected by the storm, the White House said in a statement. Fiona might have caused at least eight deaths, including that of a sick 4-month-old infant whose mother struggled to get to the hospital due to blocked roads, Dr. Maria Conte Miller, director of the Institute of Forensic Sciences, said in a roundtable on Tuesday. The deaths are under investigation. The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency has so far attributed four deaths to the storm in Puerto Rico. A fifth person was killed in Guadeloupe earlier in the week. For many Puerto Rico residents, the memory of Hurricane Maria in 2017 is still fresh. Some 3,000 people died in that Category 5 storm, which left the entire island without electricity for a week. Marylou Maldonado, 45, a saleswoman from the town of Camuy in northwestern Puerto Rico, said water was restored to her residence on Tuesday, but that the governor and energy provider failed to fulfill their promise to restore power to her region. “People are under a lot of stress,” she said. “Here in this area, the crisis is emotional. It is emotional because of the frustration of not having electricity and that we are being lied to.” An estimated 1.07 million homes and businesses remained without power in Puerto Rico by midday on Wednesday, according to LUMA Energy, which has said full restoration to all 1.5 million customers could take several days. The Bermuda Weather Service has issued a tropical storm warning for the British territory, 600 miles (966 km) east of the U.S. state of North Carolina. Hurricane-force winds are a possibility depending on the storm’s path, it said. Michelle Pitcher, deputy director of the service, said the country is “like a point sticking up out of the ocean” that had no protective shores, meaning severe flooding was more of a danger. Even so, Pitcher said, Bermuda is ready for what Fiona has in store for the island. “Bermuda residents are very well practiced in preparing for storms,” she said. “We build strong houses.” By Ivelisse Rivera
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