The storms passed over Poland on Thursday. A spokesman for the Chief Commander of the State Fire Service reported in the evening that firefighters went to weather interventions 180 times. In some places there was a flooding, but most of the interventions did not threaten safety.
On Thursday, storms passed over southern Poland. In two regions, the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management issued warnings of the third, highest degree. In the area of nine voivodships was in force RCB alert Warning against flooding, local crisis bars also gathered.
On Thursday, firefighters were called to 180 events throughout the country. Karol Kierzkowski, spokesman for the Chief Commander of the State Fire Service, said that 82 calls fall in the province. Śląskie, with most events in the Bielsko -Bialski poviat – 50 and in the province. Lesser Poland – here 32 flooding falls in the poviat Oświęcimski, 11 floods were in Lower Silesia.
He added that the applications did not apply to any serious events – it flooded some streets, depressions of the area, overturned some trees, “so for the alerts that were issued, atmospheric events had a very calm course” – he said. No mass reports were noticed, and there were no sunk houses.
Interventions in the Śląskie Voivodeship
As reported on Thursday, around 18.15 in an interview with tvnmeteo.pl, Brigadier Aneta Gołębiowska, spokeswoman for the Silesian Provincial Commander of the State Fire Service, until 18 o'clock in the voivodship about 50 entries related to storms passing over the region were recorded. Firefighters from the Cieszyn poviat had the most work, where there were 20 applications. The crews were mainly called to pump water from streets and property.
In Bielsko-Biała and its surroundings, some streets were flooded after abundant downpours. According to the Bielsko Road portal, in the village Venom On Cisowa Street there was a flood of road and many wells opened.
Earlier, the duty officer of the Provincial Emergency Coordination Station informed about the situation in which firefighters removed the bough from the road in Piekary Śląskie.
Applications in Lesser Poland
The younger captain Hubert Warm, spokesman for the Małopolska Provincial Commander of the State Fire Service, told tvnmeteo.pl that by 6 p.m. in the voivodship 23 reports related to storms and downpours were recorded. Firefighters from Oświęcim And the surrounding area who went to action 17 times. Three interventions were recorded in Nowy Sącz and one in Krakow, Gorlice and Brzesko.
Firefighters removed broken branches from communication routes, cleared the clogged culverts and pumped water from basements.
Menacingly in other regions
Around 15 o'clock the Opole fire brigade announced that in the voivodship two interventions related to the weather were recorded, both in the Oleski poviat. A branch fell on the road, there was also a flood of a building, which during the renovation is without a roof. Nobody was injured.
The duty officer of the Provincial Headquarters of the State Fire Service in Lower Silesia reported around 15.30 that there were several minor interventions in the province, in which no one was injured.
IMGW, Bielsko Roads, tvnmeteo.pl
Source of the main photo: Bielsko roads