Weather. Winter attack. Part of Poland under snow. No electricity, impassable roads

In an interview with tvnmeteo.pl, senior brig. M.Sc. Eng. Karol Kierzkowski, press spokesman for the Chief Commander of the State Fire Service, said that by 5:30 p.m., firefighters received 772 reports all over Poland due to snowfall and strong wind. 477 interventions were carried out in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, and 275 in the Pomeranian Voivodeship. West Pomeranian Voivodeship. In other voivodeships, from several to a dozen events were recorded.

As explained by aspirant Dariusz Schacht, Spokesman of the Provincial Headquarters of the State Fire Service in Szczecinon Saturday, from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., 176 events related to difficult weather conditions were recorded.

The most reports were recorded in the following counties: Szczecinek (36), Koszalin (35) and Drawsko (25). The interventions mainly consisted of removing fallen trees and branches. No one was injured.

Volunteers from the Złocieniec Volunteer Fire Department in Drawsko County had their hands full on Saturday. In the afternoon they went to intervene at ul. Pancerniaków, where a tree branch broke under the weight of snow. A branch fell on power lines and started burning. During the day, volunteers also secured a tree that had fallen on a power line on the route between Złocieniec and Siecino.

During the day, volunteers also helped a truck driver remove his vehicle from a railway crossing. Volunteer firefighters were returning from removing a fallen tree from the route between the towns of Stawno and Kranisk. They saw that on the national road 20, at the railway crossing in Złocieniec, there was a truck parked, and its driver had difficulty driving through the crossing due to the snow on the road.

– The semi-trailer was right at the crossing – said one of the guys in a telephone conversation. Volunteers stopped, hooked up the tow truck and helped the man get his truck back on the road.

A few hours after the incident, it turned out that the driver, helped by firefighters from the Volunteer Fire Department, was helping a woman whose car had run off the road and got stuck in a ditch. This event, in turn, took place in the Węgorzyno commune. The driver stopped and helped the woman get the vehicle out. She was not injured.

Due to failures caused by heavy snowfall, approximately 22,000 people are without electricity in the eastern part of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship. recipients.

– Conditions are difficult. There are over 80 energy emergency brigades in the field. There is still snowfall, which is associated with further damage to the power infrastructure – Grzegorz Baran from Energa Operator reported on Saturday.

He added that in some places the roads are impassable. – Some power lines also run through forests, so working conditions are difficult. The weather is not favorable to us at the moment, he noted.

Water level in the port of… Świnoujście exceeded the alarm level by 40 cm (580 cm). The situation is constantly monitored by the Crisis Management Department. – This is due to strong winds with an average speed of up to 50 kilometers per hour, with gusts of up to 85 km/h. The wind blows from the north-west and north and causes water pressure from the Baltic Sea – said Wojciech Basałygo from the City Hall in Świnoujście. The situation is also monitored by the Crisis Management Department. Joanna Agatowska, the Mayor of Świnoujście, also informed about the problems.

The State Fire Service decided to secure the slips with sandbags. – This is to prevent water from spilling onto the sidewalk. There is no threat to residential buildings, these actions are more preventive in nature. Five units are operating on site, including the District Commander of the State Fire Service – said the press spokesman of the Provincial Headquarters of the State Fire Service in Szczecin, Asst. Dariusz Schacht.

Motor pumps were activated to prevent water from entering the properties. Water is pumped behind the flood embankment. One of the farms was secured with sandbags. The water flooded the local marina. Before noon, firefighters secured the slipways along Wybrzeże Władysława IV Street with sandbags. The Military Fire Service also helped. The bags are placed preventively to prevent water from being poured from the port canal directly onto the street.

The high water level in the port of Świnoujście is expected to continue until Sunday. Only in the evening will the water begin to recede. The high level also remains in the Przytór-Łunowo and Karsibór housing estates.

There are also difficulties in train traffic. A tree fell on the railway traction on the Reblino – Wrześnica route. According to PKP, railway traffic on this section was suspended.

Due to the difficult weather situation, the arrival of trains to Szczecin Główny was delayed. The train “Żuławy” was delayed the most Olsztyn Główny (387 minutes), “Bryza” from Olsztyn Główny (310 minutes) and “Rybak” from Białystok (268 minutes). These trains got stuck near Lębork, which is today indicated as one of the towns with the largest number of network and energy infrastructure failures.

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Road conditions in the province are deteriorating. Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship: in the zone from Elbląg by Iława i Ostróda it snows heavily and the wind blows heavily in Olsztyn, in the eastern part of the region, including Olecko, which is usually the coldest, it rains briefly.

The services responsible for clearing snow from roads ensure that all routes are passable. However, where snow falls – this is the western part of the region – it can be slippery in places, especially on local routes. Near Braniewo or Bartoszyc there is already about 20 cm of snow. The wind blows it onto the road in places.

The police reported that in the village of Strubno near Braniewo, due to difficult road conditions, a woman skidded, drove into a ditch and rolled over. The driver's life is not in danger.

There are currently 42 snow-clearing and road-spreading vehicles on national roads in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, and 17 on provincial roads. In Morąg, due to heavy snowfall, snowblowers were used on the sidewalks.

It has been snowing in the Pomeranian Voivodeship for several hours. Since the morning, 133 vehicles of snow removal and anti-ice equipment have been working on provincial roads. According to the Provincial Roads Authority, there is snow on the roads in all poviats of the voivodeship. Despite difficult winter conditions, the roads are passable.

A several-kilometer traffic jam was created on the Kwiatkowskiego Flyover in the village of Gdyniawhich leads from the port to the Tricity Bypass (S6). There are mainly trucks parked there, which have trouble getting up from the exit onto the ring road towards Gdańsk. There is also heavy snow on the roads in the Tricity itself. Due to snowfall and strong winds, the fire brigade recorded 106 incidents. As Jakub Friedenberger, spokesman for the Provincial Headquarters of the State Fire Service in Gdańsk, reported on Saturday morning, firefighters went mainly to the fallen trees. – There were no injuries in the incident – Friedenberger reported.

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On the night from Friday to Saturday, an atmospheric front entered Poland, bringing snowfall. The rainfall zone will move from Pomerania into the country during the day. There may be a snow cover of up to five centimeters, and in Pomerania and Warmia – up to 10-20 cm.

– It was predicted that snow would fall, but we didn't expect it to fall so much – said Mr. Józef, a resident of Szczecinek, in a conversation with a TVN24 reporter. – I remember my young years when there were such snowdrifts that I didn't go to school for 3-4 days. Now everything is fine, he added.

Snow storms are expected in parts of the country on Saturday.

At Kontakt24 we received photos of white landscapes from many places in northern Poland, including: from Gdańsk, Gdynia, Słupsk or Bydgoszcz.