Floods and floods have large parts of the Rhineland and Sauerland in North Rhine-Westphalia under control.
A video is circulating on Twitter that shows a daring rescue operation by the fire brigade.
Munich / Stolberg - In the Rhineland, in the Märkisches Kreis and in the Sauerland, the floods in North Rhine-Westphalia are raging continuously.
Extreme storms: In the major cities of Düsseldorf, Aachen and Hagen, entire districts are evacuated.
In Altena, a young firefighter died on Wednesday (July 14th) fighting the floods, as the police in Iserlohn confirmed in the evening.
Heavy rain and floods: Floods in Stolberg near Aachen provide a dramatic rescue
According to the news portal
come-on.de
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was declared in the Märkischer Kreis on Wednesday evening
, and all fire brigades were set to “full alarm”.
In the city region of Aachen, the flood situation with persistent heavy rain at the same time was also dramatic.
A video circulated on Twitter that documented a daring rescue operation by the fire brigade in Stolberg.
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Pictures of the devastation: The flood causes severe damage in Stolberg near Aachen.
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As the
Aachener Zeitung
reported, all the houses along the Vichtbach had to be evacuated in the evening in the medium-sized town with around 56,000 inhabitants.
The fire brigade apparently took a high risk with the evacuation measures.
In the video mentioned, a fire brigade's personnel carrier can be seen plowing through the water against the tide.
Spectacular: You can also see the firefighters apparently pulling a man out of the flood into the driver's cab of their fire engine.
In the video: The daring rescue operation in the flood of Stolberg
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- Yess 🍀 (@YessJaa) July 14, 2021
And that's not all: When the person has been rescued, the fire brigade crew drives on towards several houses in the midst of the flood.
Apparently to warn residents of the floods and / or to rescue trapped people.
The video also shows a car that disappears completely in the masses of water.
Heavy rain and floods: North Rhine-Westphalia has floods firmly under control
The damage (not only) in North Rhine-Westphalia from the floods and floods is already immense.
Bitter: The bad weather in Germany with a lot of heavy rain is expected to continue up to and including Friday.
The water levels should also continue to rise.
The fire brigades, the THW and other rescuers are obviously doing their job at great risk in this situation.
Not just in Stolberg.
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