Firefighters Worked All Night to Eliminate the Effects of the Storms: Flooded Houses and Yards, Fallen Trees and Hundreds of Damaged Cars
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Tens of incidents in the electricity distribution network were reported Wednesday evening in Bucharest and in the towns around the capital, according to the maps of the electricity grids. Tuesday night storm caused significant damage in the capital area, where authorities intervened to evacuate water from houses, courtyards, basements or the streets, as well as to ...
A severe storm raged through the Romanian capital Bucharest on Wednesday, killing one person and damaging dozens of houses and vehicles. Nearly 2,000 emergency calls were received in Bucharest alone, emergency services reported. Outside the capital, the storm caused damage in 60 towns and villages. Several metro stations were also flooded. Earlier this week, Romania experienced a heatwave with temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius.
The capital is among the most seriously affected areas by the violent storm that hit Bucharest and Ilfov County last night, leaving behind fallen trees, flooded streets and subsoils, torn roofs and hundreds of damaged cars. The official review of the Inspectorate for Emergency Situations Bucharest-Ilfov (ISUBIF) shows the extent of the phenomenon: more than 1,400 interventions only in Bucharest, until Wednesday at 08:30.
The violent storm that hit Bucharest last night left behind an impressive assessment of the damage and revealed the vulnerabilities of the capital's infrastructure. In just ten hours, nearly 70 litres of water fell on the square metre, equivalent to the average amount of precipitation in a month, and the sewage system failed.
A rare storm of violence rocked Bucharest last night with the force of a tropical cyclone! Thousands of people called for help at 112 to call for help. Firefighters swam to reach fully water-covered cars, roofs flew dangerously through the air, and the wind threw trees at hundreds of cars. Considered the largest in the last four decades, vijelia has also taken a human life.
The ISU teams Bucharest-Ilfov intervene in force Wednesday evening to manage a record number of more than 2,500 requests, recorded due to severe weather phenomena that have hit the capital and Ilfov County in the last 34 hours.Traffic restricted on DN1, at the Ikea Passage, due to a pillar in danger of collapse. Police recommendationsBrigada Road has instituted temporary traffic restrictions on DN1, in the Ikea Passage area, to allow IGSU crews …
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