Romania affected by floods in the last 24 hours (Photo gallery)

More than 100 areas in 24 counties in România were affected by floods during the last 24 hours, according to the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations.

“Firefighters’s missions to save people and eliminate the effects of floods in the country are held for five days. In the last 24 hours, 171 people were preventively evacuated, and two other people caught by the floods were rescued by military firefighters. Fortunately, the adoption of self-protection measures by the population has made the events to be without casualties, ” IGSU officials say.

The heavy rainfall of Monday and last night caused local floods in 106 localities in 24 counties – Alba, Arges, Bacau, Bihor, Botosani, Brasov, Caraş Severin, Calarasi, Dambovita, Dolj, Giurgiu, Hunedoara, Harghita, Ilfov, Ialomita, Mehedinti, Olt, Prahova, Salaj, Teleorman, Timis, Vaslui and Vrancea, as well as in Bucharest.

The interventions of firefighters have been difficult due to the increased water level and the high volumes of floods caused by heavy rainfall. Currently, military firefighters intervene to remove the effects of floods in Giurgiu, Galati, Ilfov and Vrancea counties.

Warnings for the population through the RO-ALERT system were issued in counties that were affected by severe weather.

Taking into account the large number of requests received from the citizens, for the efficient management of the emergency situations, in the affected counties there were arranged measures for supplementing the number of the firefighters and the operative groups were activated.

“In the context of increasing debts on certain watercourses, we call on citizens not to cross the rivers through the water or to approach their shores. Information about people who are at risk or who have been isolated will be immediately notified by the unique 112 emergency number, “IGSU representatives said.

The evolution of dangerous meteorological phenomena is permanently monitored through the IGSU National Operational Center, if necessary deploying in the affected counties the forces and means from other areas where no emergency situations are recorded.

Difficult situation in Galati

There is a special situation in Galati county, in Corod, where 165 people were preventively evacuated given the increase in water levels on the Corozel stream. At the same time, ISU crews together with local authorities act to create a dam with sandbags.

“From the first estimates, there are 63 flooded houses, about 170 people evacuated and went to live with relatives or friends. We were not asked to accommodate them in the spaces that we had prepared. The floods also threatens the town of Matca. A RO ALERT message will be sent to Matca people, “said Eugen Chiriţă, spokesman for the Emergency Situations Inspectorate (ISU).

The Teleorman county is in the same situation as 70 households and 18 houses, from 13 localities, were flooded by heavy rainfall in recent days.

Over the past two days, dozens of firemen, policemen, gendarmes, members of the County Emergency Committee and local authorities have been in the affected areas alongside people in difficulty.

Road traffic on DE 70 Bucharest-Alexandria was difficult in the area of the 61 km, in the area of Drăgăneşti-Vlasca, where the road was covered by the overflowing waters of the Câlniştea River.

Five localities in the county are affected by the lack of electricity due to meteorological phenomena produced last night. On the other hand, there are localities in the county where the inhabitants had to be evacuated urgently in order not to be taken by the waters flowing from the riverbeds.

Instead, in Neamţ, a footbridge was destroyed and affected 70 meters of the road, and in Costişa, 10 hectares of sunflower land were flooded and 1.2 km of the village road was affected by floods, according to ISU Neamt. Neamt County is under orange code warning of torrential rains and floods.

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