Streets appear like overflowing rivers, vehicles appear like launched boats, and flooded homes, basements and garages. That is what Tuesday appeared like in lots of locations in southern Poland following storms and heavy downpours. All through the nation, firefighters responded to calls virtually 2,200 occasions, together with the most important quantity in Silesia. The Mayor of Bielsko-Biała introduced a flood alarm as a result of quite a few floods.
Because the spokesman for the State Hearth Service, Senior Brigadier Karol Kierzkowski, stated on Wednesday in “You Get Up and Know” on TVN24, as a result of flooding and robust winds, firefighters carried out “practically two thousand 200 interventions within the final 24 hours alone, so it is rather a lot.” He added that almost all typically, over 1,200 incidents have been recorded within the Silesian Voivodeship, and in Bielsko County and Bielsko-Biała, firefighters have been dispatched over 800 occasions. – Actions are nonetheless ongoing there. Probably the most troublesome and severe 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 stated, “the entrance moved additional north and northeast and touched the Lublin Voivodeship.” Over 200 interventions have 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 have been very intense, as a result of on the peak, 500 firefighters have been on responsibility solely within the Silesian Voivodeship – he stated.
State Hearth Service spokesman on Tuesday’s weather-related interventionsTVN24
Bielsko-Biała underneath water
On Tuesday, the deputy Silesian provincial commander of the State Hearth Service participated in a gathering with the mayor of Bielsko-Biała, who issued an order to announce a flood alarm within the metropolis. A flood alarm and flood emergency service within the Bielsko poviat within the communes of Czechowice-Dziedzice, Jasienica and Wilamowice have been issued by the starosta of Bielsko.
In response to the voivode’s providers and firefighters, 100 to 150 liters of water per sq. meter fell in a really brief time in Bielsko-Biała and the encompassing 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 have been flooded, together with the basement of a warehouse with an space of 1,500 sq. meters. Some faculties have 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 street in Bielsko-BiałaJarek Praszkiewicz/PAP
Property subsequent to a flooded street in Bielsko-BiałaJarek Praszkiewicz/PAP
In Czechowice-Dziedzice, as a result of excessive water ranges on the Iłownica River, the bridge alongside Zabrzeska Road was closed.
– It’s price emphasizing that we now have no casualties. It’s true that there have been individuals who, for instance, have been reduce off by water, however these individuals have been evacuated in the event that they expressed such a necessity. Nobody was bodily harm, stated voivode Marek Wójcik.
The results 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 have been flooded. The state of affairs was troublesome, amongst others, within the Sucha district. In Maków Podhalański, on a personal property, the proprietor was electrocuted whereas pumping water along with his personal electrical pump and was taken to hospital.
In Krakow’s Bieżanów, on some sections of Serafa and Drwinka, embankments have been raised with sandbags, and flood sleeves have been additionally used. Within the city of Krzyszkowice (Myślenicki poviat), a sewage remedy plant was flooded.
On account 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 stated, representatives of the State Hearth Service, together with the deputy provincial commander of the State Hearth Service in Małopolska, participated on Tuesday in a videoconference between the deputy voivode of Małopolska and representatives of providers and establishments concerned in actions within the voivodeship.
Flooding in Ojców in Małopolska PAP/Artwork Service
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