“We have noticed an increase in activity since 4:30 on Monday morning,” explains the Moselle Sdis officer. Crumpled sheets on the streets and falls of people with, sometimes, lifts monopolized the rescuers of the Moselle on this Monday morning.
More than 200 firefighters were mobilized this Monday morning to deal with this bad weather. In all, 17 accidents occurred in the Metz-Thionville sector, which was visibly the most affected by the ice. In all, the firefighters carried out about a hundred interventions as the yellow alert of Météo France could predict. “Now it is stabilising, adds the Sdis officer contacted by telephone at 9:40. As temperatures rise, the situation will improve. The Météo France bulletin announced a yellow alert until Monday 9:00 and then a return to green. On the part of the gendarmerie, the officer cited “above all material accidents in the Messina sector”. At 9:30, six were still underway at Marange-Silvange, Gravelotte, Plappeville and Maizières-lès-Metz in particular. “It was crumpled sheet metal without serious injuries,” concludes this officer of the Departmental Squadron for Road Safety (EDSR) of the Moselle, referring to the Messina sector.
