In severe storms with heavy rainfall three people are in Baden-Württemberg according to the authorities, died. Among the victims was a firefighter, said a spokesman for the Situation Centre in Stuttgart. The man had come in Schwabisch Gmund in trying died to save another human being, as the city administration announced. The person who should be saved, died. The identity of the victim was initially unclear. In Weissbach in Hohenlohekreis a 60 year old man also died in a flooded underground. In addition, there are several injured, the spokesman said.
“Our thoughts are with the families of the dead,” said Baden-Württemberg’s Minister of the Interior Thomas Strobl. “I express to them my sincere condolences.” Thousands forces were deployed against the flood. is to “prevent worse and to limit the damage,” the CDU politician goal. . Around 7,000 personnel including the fire department, the Technical Relief and police were deployed
In Braunsbach it came under the competent police headquarters Aalen cause significant damage to homes after the local river had burst its banks. A house was destroyed, according to authorities with information by the mass of water. Around 150 personnel from fire departments, technical relief and the Red Cross were in danger of collapsing from homes to evacuate. Partially refused residents to leave their homes. So far has not known that people had come to the place seriously hurt. Electricity, water no longer worked in the place. The place in Schwäbisch-Hall district was cordoned off a large area. He has just over 900 inhabitants. The police headquarters Ulm reported “immense damage”. Around 500 emergency calls were received.
Photos on local media on the internet streets were seen that resembled roaring rivers. Cars were swept away by muddy water, piled one above the other and wedged partially thrown in shop windows. In some homes the water was obviously up to the level of the bottom window.
Heavy rains have caused serious damage in the Bavarian region of Ansbach and parts of the district Neustadt / Aisch. In the region roads were after a thunderstorm flooded and been swept away cars. Many cellars in the region were flooded, as a spokesman for the emergency dispatch Ansbach announced. People were not injured, according to preliminary findings.
Particularly hard hit were reported to several districts of Flachslanden north of Ansbach. There are after flooding some houses in danger of collapsing. Emergency personnel and firefighters were trying to secure the building, such as the control center announced. Several cars were swept away by the flooding of its banks entered Franconian Rezat. The situation is similar in neighboring place Obernzenn is. There, the heavy rain had let burst their banks the river Zenn and taken care of devastation. “Both communities has hit hard,” said one control center staff.
According to meteorologists fell in southern Germany places within an hour as much rain as usual within half a month. In the Bavarian city Hohenthann went within an hour down 67 liters per square meter, as the German Weather Service (DWD) reported. In Landshut, there were 57 liters, in the region of the Upper Bavarian Weilheim places 53 liters per hour. This corresponds roughly to the amount of rain that would normally be measured within two weeks.
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