Swiss Villages on High Alert After Glacier Collapse and Landslide Buries Blatten

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The Swiss mountain village of Brienz in Graubünden may be facing another natural disaster. Authorities declared a red alert on Friday morning after geologists warned of a new, gigantic rock avalanche. The situation is serious: up to 2.2 million cubic meters of rock could fall down in the worst case and bury the entire village.

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The Swiss village of Brienz was declared the highest alert level on Friday. The village could be buried under a rock avalanche. An evacuation order had already been issued at the end of last year, but the rainfall in early May and the Pentecost weekend worsened the situation again.

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The village of Brienz, in the canton of Grisons, may be buried by rock cubes. ...

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This is a very first step, but this Friday the work of clearing the floating wood and the debris accumulated in the lake was finally able to start in Blatten, the buried village of Valais.

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The president of the National Council Maja Riniker (PLR) asked Blatten (VS) on Saturday to set up a new legal basis for disaster aid. The collapse that ravaged the village of Upper Valais at the end of May showed the urgency of such an approach.