Since the evening hours, fire departments in parts of Upper Austria have been in constant use due to storm damage. There are many operations in the Ried district. The storm blew the roof off the building of the municipal boarding school. Parts of the roof truss also landed on the train tracks that run next to the boarding school. “Luckily, it’s already summer vacation. It could have turned out differently,” said Dominik Heinzlmaier, commander of the Neuhofen volunteer fire department, in an interview with OÖN. Together with colleagues from the Ried volunteer fire department, the roof is now being temporarily covered so that no more water can penetrate the building. “It’s probably going to be a long night today. The Ried district has been hit hard,” said Heinzlmaier.
“This situation was extremely dangerous. If there had been students in the boarding school, things could have turned out very badly today,” said a Ried firefighter who was on site. Ried’s fire chief Florian Schmidbauer said at 9 p.m. in an interview with the OÖN: “Fortunately, no one was on the bike path or sidewalk where several large pieces of the boarding school roof landed. In Ried, several roofs were badly damaged by fallen trees. The storm will certainly keep us busy overnight and tomorrow,” said Schmidbauer. In many other communities in the Ried district, firefighters are also on constant duty because of fallen trees.
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