Streets appear to be overflowing rivers, automobiles appear to be launched boats, and flooded homes, basements and garages. That is what Tuesday regarded like in lots of locations in southern Poland after storms and heavy downpours. All through the nation, firefighters responded to calls nearly 2,200 occasions, together with the biggest quantity in Silesia. The Mayor of Bielsko-Biała introduced a flood alarm because of quite a few floods.
Because the spokesman for the State Fireplace Service, Senior Brigadier Karol Kierzkowski, mentioned on Wednesday in “You Get Up and Know” on TVN24, because of flooding and robust winds, firefighters carried out “almost two thousand 200 interventions within the final 24 hours alone, so it is rather a lot.” He added that the majority usually, over 1,200 incidents had been recorded within the Silesian Voivodeship, and in Bielsko County and Bielsko-Biała, firefighters had been dispatched over 800 occasions. – Actions are nonetheless ongoing there. Essentially the most tough and critical state of affairs was there, he famous.
– The second voivodeship that was hit by this heavy rain was the Lesser Poland Voivodeship, primarily Kraków and surrounding cities and poviats – Kierzkowski reported.
As he mentioned, “the entrance moved additional north and northeast and touched the Lublin Voivodeship.” Over 200 interventions had been carried on the market, primarily in Zamość. – It was additionally raining closely in Podkarpacie and the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship – added the firefighter.
– Primarily our work consisted of pumping water or securing buildings, basements, and elevating embankments close to rivers utilizing sandbags. These are normal actions, however they had been very intense, as a result of on the peak, 500 firefighters had been on obligation solely within the Silesian Voivodeship – he mentioned.
State Fireplace Service spokesman on Tuesday’s weather-related interventionsTVN24
Bielsko-Biała below water
On Tuesday, the deputy Silesian provincial commander of the State Fireplace Service participated in a gathering with the mayor of Bielsko-Biała, who issued an order to announce a flood alarm within the metropolis. The flood alarm and flood emergency service within the Bielsko poviat within the communes of Czechowice-Dziedzice, Jasienica and Wilamowice had been issued by the starosta of Bielsko.
In line with the voivode’s companies and firefighters, 100 to 150 liters of water per sq. meter fell in a really quick time in Bielsko-Biała and the encircling space. The final time such intense rainfall was recorded within the area was in 1972.
In Bielsko-Biała, quite a few roads, properties and basements had been flooded, together with the basement of a warehouse corridor with an space of 1,500 sq. meters. Some faculties had been closed. The water washed out the embankment of the Białka River over a size of roughly 50 meters, it additionally washed out the bridge in Ligota and made the bridges in Puńców impassable.
Flooded highway in Bielsko-BiałaJarek Praszkiewicz/PAP
Property subsequent to a flooded highway in Bielsko-BiałaJarek Praszkiewicz/PAP
In Czechowice-Dziedzice, because of excessive water ranges on the Iłownica River, the bridge alongside Zabrzeska Avenue was closed.
– It’s price emphasizing that now we have no casualties. It’s true that there have been individuals who, for instance, had been reduce off by water, however these folks had been evacuated in the event that they expressed such a necessity. Nobody was bodily harm, mentioned voivode Marek Wójcik.
The consequences of downpours in Bielsko-Biała. A report by a TVN24TVN24 reporter
Flooding in Małopolska, flooded nationwide park
On account of heavy rainfall in Małopolska, many properties and streets had been flooded. The state of affairs was tough, amongst others, within the Sucha district. In Maków Podhalański, on a personal property, the proprietor was electrocuted whereas pumping water together with his personal electrical pump and was taken to hospital.
In Krakow’s Bieżanów, on some sections of Serafa and Drwinka, embankments had been raised with sandbags, and flood sleeves had been additionally used. Within the city of Krzyszkowice (Myślenicki poviat), a sewage therapy plant was flooded.
As a result of heavy rain, the Ojców Nationwide Park closed the paths, parking tons and the cave on Tuesday.
Flooding within the Ojców Nationwide ParkOjców Nationwide Park
A flood emergency service was established in Brzeszcze and Oświęcim.
As Kierzkowski mentioned, representatives of the State Fireplace Service, together with the deputy provincial commander of the State Fireplace Service in Małopolska, participated on Tuesday in a videoconference between the deputy voivode of Małopolska and representatives of companies and establishments concerned in actions within the voivodeship.
Flooding in Ojców in Małopolska PAP/Artwork Service
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