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Bad weather: end of red vigilance in the Alpes-Maritimes, around ten people wanted

2020-10-03T05:08:47.811Z


WEATHER - The rain has stopped. Villages are cut off from the world as a result of landslides.


Météo France lifted the red vigilance in the Alpes-Maritimes department on Saturday morning, October 3, which recorded "

exceptional

"

rainfall

and where ten people were wanted by the emergency services on Friday evening.

Our partner The weather channel * did the same, while keeping three departments on orange alert (Landes, Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Côtes-d'Armor).

Rainfall accumulations over the entire episode, which started on Friday morning, generally reached 40 to 80 mm on the coast and locally 120 mm on the near-coast.

In the interior, they generally reach 200 to 350 mm and up to 500 mm occasionally.

Saturday morning, the rain had stopped, and hundreds of firefighters were still mobilized.

About ten people including two firefighters are wanted by the emergency services in the Nice region.

In addition to the six people wanted in the early evening, two firefighters were reported missing around 11:00 p.m., while they were carrying out rescue operations, said the Alpes-Maritimes firefighters.

The authorities speak of people "

supposedly missing

".

91 people were "

brought to safety

" in the evening by the firefighters.

Among those wanted are two firefighters, a firefighter and a volunteer firefighter.

The secretary general of the prefecture described to AFP an "

unprecedented situation, with large areas affected

", "

villages today cut off from the world following landslides

".

Friday afternoon, a bridge collapsed washed away by the flooding of a river near Saint-Martin-Vésubie, a locality of some 1,400 inhabitants in the same area, according to firefighters.

"

The damage is considerable in Saint-Martin-Vésubie, which is the epicenter of the phenomenon, 235 mm of water fell in a few hours

", described to AFP the LR deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes Eric Ciotti, present at the emergency operations center.

Flights to Nice have been suspended, according to the prefecture.

All the stations in the department are closed and no train will run before midday on Saturday.

13,500 customers were deprived of electricity in the evening, mainly in the Roya, Vésubie and Tinée valleys.

* The weather channel is a company of the Figaro group

Source: lefigaro

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