Latest Updates on Floods and Emergency Services in Couvin, Beauraing, Floreffe, Rochefort, Namur, and Surrounding Regions

2023-06-22 14:26:00

The Provincial Coordination Committee is gathering information from the field and reported, at 5:30 p.m., regarding a hundred firefighter missions in the regions of Couvin, Beauraing, Floreffe, Rochefort and Namur. Essentially pumping out cellars, fellings and clearing roads. In addition, traffic on the E42 motorway is complicated at Fernelmont by a mudslide. “There are also other embarrassments on different road sections of the province,” added Governor Denis Mathen in his press release.

In addition, on the side of the City of Namur, it has been announced that the municipal phase of the emergency plan will remain preventively active until this Friday at 7 a.m. Due to the risk of high winds, an order from the Mayor prohibits access to parks and wooded areas until the same date and time. The areas most affected and which will still be the subject of special attention in the coming hours from the emergency services are the streets Marcel Lecomte and Major Mascaux as well as the districts of Vedrin, Herbatte and Bomel.

In Namur, the boulevards of Herbatte and North, under water, were cut off to traffic by the police, we also learned at 4:20 p.m.

In Wépion, the Pairelle road is covered with water, the drains did not follow.

The water rushes down at La Pairelle (Wépion). ©EDA
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