Flood in Poland, Lewin Brzeski. They saved a two-year-old and a pregnant woman from the flood. “They are safe now”

Currently, the most difficult flood situation in Brzeski County is in Lewin Brzeski in the Opole region. Artur Kotara, the mayor of the city, ordered a voluntary evacuation.

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Water overflowed under the embankment in Kantorowice near Lewin Brzeski on Monday (September 16) at around 11 p.m. – As a result, water flooded 90 percent of Lewin and many smaller nearby towns along the Nysa River. Since morning, 131 people have been evacuated from the flooded towns – said Rafał Dziuba, press officer of the District Headquarters of the State Fire Service in Brzeg.

On Tuesday at noon, the cadet reported that the evacuation had already ended in Grodków, Kopice and Głębock, among other places. – Currently, firefighters in these towns are “only” reaching out to people to check if everything is OK with those who did not want to evacuate – Dziuba added.

On the streets of the city, military amphibious vehicles and boats of the Volunteer Water Rescue Service are seen helping to evacuate residents. There is also a police Black Hawk. Police pilots evacuated 14 people on Tuesday, including a two-year-old and a pregnant woman.

“On Tuesday alone, by 3 p.m., police pilots from the area of ​​Lewin Brzeski evacuated 14 people on board a police Black Hawk, including a 2-year-old child and a woman in her 8th month of pregnancy. Everyone is now safe, under the care of medics. We continue to save people,” the police reported on social media.

“In places where high-voltage lines are located and rope techniques cannot be used, officers in special suits carry residents out of flooded areas on their hands to safely place them in a police helicopter waiting nearby and evacuate them from threatened areas,” the release reads.