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Branches lie on a street in Krefeld after a storm
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In several cities in North Rhine-Westphalia, the fire brigades were in continuous operation on Thursday evening.
Now the storms are shifting to eastern Germany.
According to the fire brigade, the phones in the
Baerl district of Duisburg
fell out at times because so many emergency calls came in a short time.
On Friday morning, the fire brigade reported more than 600 operations, as reported by the "WAZ".
There was a multitude of downed trees, as well as flooding of streets and basements.
On the Ruhr, the fire brigade rescued people who had capsized with a boat.
An approximately 20 meter high oak tree was split in
Mülheim/Ruhr
, probably by a lightning strike .
Half of a tree fell on a two-storey house and damaged the roof.
A car was hit by the tree.
People were not harmed.
A lightning strike caused a roof truss fire
on a family home in
Bergisch Gladbach .
Before the fire brigade arrived, a resident tried to fight the flames himself from a ladder with a garden hose.
No one was injured, according to the fire department.
In
Krefeld
, the fire brigade was in constant use because of the storm.
Many citizens pulled smaller trees and branches from the streets.
Some train routes were temporarily blocked by trees.
A barn in Hatten near Oldenburg
caught fire on Friday night
due to a lightning strike .
According to police reports, the building burned down completely.
Vehicles and tools from a farm were stored in the barn.
On Friday there will be storms in the eastern half of Germany, as the German weather service predicted in the morning - "in places heavy rain of up to 25 liters per square meter in a short time".
In the afternoon, according to the DWD, "in particular from East Saxony to Western Pomerania, there is an increased risk of severe thunderstorms with heavy rain up to 40 liters per square meter, larger hail and heavy gusts of wind up to 100 km/h".
Late in the evening the showers and thunderstorms will move east.
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