2024-09-20 09:21:26
After the devastating floods in Lower Austria, twelve towns and areas were still inaccessible or difficult to reach on Friday, said Deputy Governor Stephan Pernkopf (ÖVP). 68,000 emergency personnel – including from all other federal states – had been called out in the past few days. “Relaxation yes, all-clear no,” stressed Pernkopf. “That’s why many districts remain disaster areas.”
219 buildings with 424 people were still evacuated. The focus of operations after the flood was still in the Tullnerfeld, the central area and the Pielachtal. According to Pernkopf, there were even helpers from Germany in the country. They supported their partner fire department in Böheimkirchen (St. Pölten district).
The areas that were inaccessible or difficult to reach on Friday were Hofstetten (individual farms), Loich, Frankenfels, Markersdorf-Haindorf, Haunoldstein, Wolfsgraben, Traismauer (individual streets), the Jägerhaussiedlung in Hainburg, Asparn in the market town of Langenrohr, the Donaualtarm bathing settlement in St. Andrä-Wördern, the settlement areas along the Danube floodplain in Klosterneuburg and Thal in the market town of St. Leonhard am Forst.
State Governor Johanna Mikl-Leitner (ÖVP) also pointed out that “the situation in many affected areas remains serious.” “Day by day, we are feeling our way back to normality.” Mikl-Leitner stressed that the damage was enormous. “That is why it is also necessary for the European Union to help us.”
On Friday, during a visit to the Heiligenkreuz fire department in the Vienna Woods, the governor reported that the fire departments in Lower Austria had already been called out to 16,858 operations. Together with the state fire department commander Dietmar Fahrafellner, she thanked the helpers. Mikl-Leitner also paid “great respect” to the mayors. They are “the first crisis managers on site”. In his thanks to all fire department members, Fahrafellner noted that their commitment goes far beyond what could be expected. “You are doing inhuman things.”
The districts of Amstetten, Hollabrunn, Lilienfeld, Mistelbach, Scheibbs, Wiener Neustadt-Land and Waidhofen ad Thaya are no longer disaster areas as of Thursday evening. The same applies to the statutory cities of Krems, Waidhofen ad Ybbs and Wiener Neustadt.
After the floods, hunters in Lower Austria are also called upon to help with the clean-up work. “Hunting, agriculture and forestry will work together in the coming months to (re)create healthy, structured and diverse and thus resilient habitats,” emphasized State Master Hunter Josef Pröll in a press release. Not only the habitats have been damaged, but also the wild animal populations. In floodplain areas, hoofed game such as roe deer, red deer and wild boar are affected.
According to Pröll, it will only be possible to estimate the actual impact of the flood on the population in the coming days after the water has receded. Hunters will then carry out population estimates, which will be incorporated into hunting plans together with the dead game counts and will be included in the shooting plan. Another task currently being undertaken is the disposal of wild animal carcasses.
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