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Tegucigalpa's municipal risk-management authority is intensifying surveillance in flood- and landslide-prone neighborhoods north of the capital as soil saturation rises and the Laureles dam threatens to overflow, with officials urging residents on unstable terrain to evacuate.

A sinkhole up to four meters deep has damaged 12 homes in Tegucigalpa's Kennedy neighborhood, and authorities are evaluating a preventive evacuation of about 55 residents — including elderly people and an infant — pending a technical assessment, with an emergency shelter already prepared.

A fire that started in a grass field rapidly spread to residential homes in La Rivera de La Vega, Tegucigalpa, prompting families to evacuate their belongings as firefighters deployed six units to combat the blaze.

The Honduran Navy has evacuated 258 people from Gracias a Dios department over the past 24 hours as intense rain and flooding from the Kruta River swelled, with 112 rescued from the hardest-hit communities of Tikiraya and Lakunka.

Heavy rains have inundated communities in Gracias a Dios on Honduras's northern coast, prompting the Navy to evacuate 146 people from Baicán and Rats Disguan to a shelter, with further rainfall expected to increase the risk.

Heavy rains over the weekend caused the Patuca River to overflow in three municipalities, forcing 160 families to evacuate and destroying crops including rice, cassava, plantains, corn, and cacao for 200–500 families in the region.