Within a short period of time, streams burst their banks due to the high levels of precipitation, “some residential buildings and sections of road were bogged down by mud, rock and wood,” a police report said yesterday.
Several houses were damaged in the storms, in the community of Hollersbach buildings were cut off from the outside world, reported district fire brigade commander Klaus Portenkirchner. In addition, the fire brigade triggered the district alarm yesterday. Four disaster trains from Pinzgau were deployed, and around 500 firefighters took part in the extensive clean-up work. Four houses in the Grubing district of Hollersbach were also evacuated for fear of renewed thunderstorms. 14 people who were staying in alpine huts in the Trattenbachtal in Neukirchen also had to be flown out by helicopter.
Storm damage in Tyrol
In the state of Tyrol, after the serious thunderstorms of the past week, there were again storms on Thursday. A rockfall occurred in Wattens (district of Innsbruck-Land), in which several large boulders fell onto the state road and temporarily blocked the road.
In Serfaus (district of Landeck), 56 firefighters were on duty in “impervious terrain” and in the dark when a forest fire was triggered by a lightning strike. Nobody was injured.
The pastor, who has been missing for about a week since he was swept away by the floods in the Stubaital, has not yet been found. The search for the cleric will resume at sea on Sunday.
Source: Nachrichten
