Heavy rain showers have caused flooding in urban areas and in some places employed the rescue service.
Heavy rains have tested Finland and also employed the rescue service.
Helsinki Ronja says that he was traveling by bus from the direction of the airport in Veromiehi, Vantaa, when the bus trip suddenly stopped.
– Looking out, I saw that a good amount of water had accumulated under the underpass ahead. Two cars were standing in the water, he says.
The cars were stuck in the water. According to Ronja, rescue service units soon arrived.
You can see what happened in the video above.
The rescue service confirms
Firefighter on duty at Central Uusimaa rescue service Tommi Leppiniemi confirms the situation described by Ronja.
– We have had a couple of tasks here related to urban flooding. In one destination, it had rained so much that the rainwater drains no longer drained, he says.
According to Leppiniemi, water had gotten into the cars driving in the deep water, which caused them to break down and the people trapped inside the vehicles.
The rescuers helped the trapped people out and lifted the covers of the well, allowing the rainwater to flow away.
Central Uusimaa’s rescue service has had at least two tasks in Vantaa related to urban flooding. Illustration picture. Ismo Pekkarinen
The fire marshal on duty reminds you not to drive into too deep water, because the resulting damage to the vehicle can be great. You should call the emergency center in case of heavy and harmful urban flooding, so that you know how to react to the situation.
Dangerous situation in Helsinki
The influx of residents was also born in Helsinki’s Viikinmäki.
Iltalehti’s reader says that there was a lot of rainwater accumulated on the roadway, so that the cars were driving in water up to the bottom. You can see the situation in the video at the beginning of the story.
A dangerous situation had arisen from the evasive maneuver of one of the cars.
– One car dodged water onto the pavement so that it almost hit an oncoming cyclist, the reader says.
Firefighter on duty Vesa Paatelman According to the report, by the early evening, the Helsinki Rescue Service had no tasks related to urban flooding.
Meteorologist serving at the Meteorological Institute Vendi Pelkonen says that the rainfall in Helsinki has varied from 2.9 millimeters to 4.9 millimeters in the last 12 hours.
Instead, larger amounts of rain have been experienced in, for example, Porvoo, where 20 millimeters has fallen in the last 12 hours. In Mäntsälä, on the other hand, it has rained as much as 55 millimeters.
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