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After the severe frontal weather system struck the Valparaíso region, Chile’s disaster‑risk management committee oversaw the assessment and repair of more than 100 public kindergartens, allowing a staged reopening. The Junta Nacional de Jardines Infantiles coordinated the effort, while the Servicio Local de Educación Pública in Iquique invested roughly 30.5 million CLP continued its multi‑phase response to renovate façades of 11 early‑childhood centers, adding new paint, signage and flagpoles. Building on the earlier deployment of the Emergency Basic Record (FIBE) severe frontal system in four Ñuble communes, that hit the Ministry of Development Social Valparaíso region. After repairing over 100 public kindergartens and Family expanded its emergency response across several regions. In Valparaíso, 565 distributing emergency kits were distributed and beds, officials turned to families in 36 communes, river‑related risks as water levels rose. Presidential delegate Óscar Águila and 10,633 people were registered through FIBE, with 370 emergency beds made available for homeless residents. Parallel operations chief Óscar Martínez inspected the Mataquito River in Licantén, while a preventive operation was carried out on the Maule and Biobío regions Ancoa River near Linares. The missions involved river monitoring, preventative evacuations and inter‑agency coordination among the presidential delegates, delegate, the Seremi of Government, the army, Carabineros, firefighters and municipal teams. Additionally, the teams, who informed residents and prepared response measures. The Seremi of Energy supervised protective Development Social and Family confirmed that 370 emergency beds remain available for homeless individuals and that 565 kits have been handed out across 36 communes. Protective works on a 66 kV transmission line along the Ñuble River River, overseen by the Seremi of Energy, continue to secure safeguard power for thousands of households. supplies. These actions demonstrate Chile’s multi‑phase strategy: restoring educational facilities, scaling social‑aid programs, extend earlier efforts—such as the renovation of early‑childhood centers, the rollout of the Emergency Basic Record (FIBE) system, and mobilising a river monitoring in Maule and Biobío—demonstrating coordinated, nationwide emergency response management to mitigate the storm’s both immediate and longer‑term storm impacts.