2023-08-25 07:51:30
A storm swept across large parts of Austria on Friday night. Above all, gusts of wind, which knocked down trees, among other things, kept the fire brigades on their toes. There was also heavy rain, which caused local flooding and triggered landslides and landslides.
The fire brigades in Upper Austria alone reported around 130 operations when the front coming from Bavaria and Salzburg caused a lot of damage around midnight. The first emergency calls came in every minute from the Braunau district to the state warning center. It was reinforced with additional personnel. At 1:00 a.m., around 80 fire brigades were already on duty.
Storm gusts of up to 130 km/h caused numerous trees to fall on roads and power lines. Roofs were covered. Vehicles were also overturned. There were also floods and fires in electrical systems.
The state fire brigade command expected in the morning that the situation would relax in the course of the morning. Individual fire brigades are likely to be busy with the elimination of the storm damage.
Up to 100 km/h were measured in Vorarlberg on Thursday evening. The fire brigade had to be called out 42 times, mostly to remove fallen trees. The Lake Constance and Unterland communities were particularly affected. In several communities, construction fences were blown through the air and traffic signs were buckled.
Shortly following 7 p.m., a strong wind warning was issued for Lake Constance, which was intensified an hour later and turned into a storm warning. Two boats were in danger, one of them – in the Fußacher bay – because it was no longer tight.
Due to repair work on the overhead line on the German side, rail traffic between Lochau-Hörbranz (Bregenz district) and Lindau (Bavaria) was also affected. There were train cancellations, for example the ECE connections between Munich and Zurich were affected. The work should be finished before noon.
Thunderstorms with heavy rain led to local mudslides and landslides in East Tyrol on Thursday. The Drautal federal road (B 100), the Pustertaler Höhenstraße (L 324) and the St. Justina Straße (L 388) were affected, according to the Tyrolean police. The first two were reopened to traffic once the clean-up work had been completed. St. Justina Street, on the other hand, initially remained closed because the bridge over the “Platschbach” had been torn away. Nobody got hurt.
In Salzburg, 27 fire brigades with 515 helpers were deployed at 158 different locations in the Flachgau, in the city of Salzburg 30 firefighters were deployed on 16 missions, the state fire brigade command announced. Most of the work might be completed during the night. Almost all communities in the Flachgau were affected, where fallen trees came to rest on the streets. In Köstendorf, a stable roof was torn off. The helpers sealed this temporarily. In Seekirchen and in Köstendorf, a car also crashed into a fallen tree.
In the Amstetten district, 18 volunteer fire departments were counted, the district command announced. Fallen trees had to be removed, and power lines were also affected, according to a broadcast. The helpers were required until the early hours of the morning.
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