Daring helicopter rescue of firefighters stranded on truck swallowed by floods

This is the melodramatic infinitesimal a occurrence unit stranded connected the extortion of their motortruck had to beryllium rescued by a chopper arsenic Storm Boris continued to teardrop done the Czech Republic.

Footage showed the conveyance being overtaken by h2o successful the municipality of Krnov, connected the borderline with Poland, during what has been described arsenic the flooding of the century.

The firefighters had been dispatched to assistance radical affected by the floods erstwhile they became trapped themselves.

With the deluge of h2o continuing to emergence and nary harmless way out, a chopper was deployed to rescue them.

Hovering supra the stranded crew, a squad wrong the craft lowered a harness, cautiously lifting each firefighter from atop the truck’s roof.

Krnov was astir wholly submerged connected Sunday arsenic its 2 rivers, Opava and Opavice, roseate to grounds levels.

Police said the assemblage of a pistillate was recovered successful the h2o successful the town, portion 2 men drowned successful the northeast of the Czech Republic.

Authorities declared an exigency successful 2 northeastern regions, including successful the Jeseniky mountains adjacent the Polish border.

A fig of towns and cities had been wholly submerged successful the northeast, with thousands of residents evacuated.

Military helicopters joined rescuers connected boats to transport radical to information successful the aftermath of the storm.

Czech premier curate Petr Fiala visited the municipality of Jesenik, 1 of the hardest deed places.

‘The worst is down america and now, we person to woody with each the damage,’ helium said pursuing the visit.

Waters were receding from the mountainous areas connected Monday, leaving down destroyed houses and bridges and damaged roads.

But the has rainfall resumed and is present expected to past until Wednesday successful immoderate areas.

Elsewhere successful Central and Eastern Europe, the h2o has swamped parts of Austria, Poland and Romania arsenic a low-pressure strategy crossing the portion has unleashed record-high rains for days.

It is expected that the rainfall volition impact Slovakia and Hungary aboriginal successful the week.

So acold 16 radical person been reported killed – 7 radical successful Romania, 5 successful Poland, 3 successful the Czech Republic and 1 successful Austria.

In Poland, premier curate Donald Tusk held an exigency gathering and declared a catastrophe successful flooded areas, a authorities measurement to facilitate evacuation and rescues.

The flooding has burst dams and embankments portion receding waters near streets covered successful piles of debris and mud.

It prompted a infirmary successful the southwestern Polish metropolis of Nysa to evacuate astir 40 patients.

Schools and offices successful the affected areas were closed Monday and drinking h2o and nutrient were being delivered by trucks.

Many Polish cities, including Warsaw, person called for nutrient donations for flood survivors.

Experts warned of flood threats owed to the cresting Oder River successful Opole, a metropolis of immoderate 130,000 residents, and Wroclaw, location to astir 640,000 residents and wherever disastrous flooding happened successful 1997.

Firefighters successful southwestern Poland said flood victims included a surgeon whose assemblage was recovered Monday greeting successful Nysa aft helium returned from infirmary duty.

The bodies of 2 women and 2 different men person been recovered successful different parts of the region.

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