Torrential storms create dramatic scenes in many places in Germany. A spectacular rescue can be seen in a video.
Munich / Stolberg – After the heavy rainfall, parts of West Germany have unbelievable scenes: masses of water push a caravan against a bridge in the Eifel. The vehicle is completely crushed.
In the Eifel town of Schuld in Rhineland-Palatinate, 6 houses collapsed after heavy rainfall. 25 more houses threaten to collapse, as spiegel.de writes. The SWR reports that 30 people are missing. The situation is confusing, according to a police spokesman. The AFP news agency later reported 50 to 60 missing persons, citing the police.
Tief Bernd: The storm situation in many German cities is dramatic
In the major cities of Düsseldorf, Aachen and Hagen, entire districts had to be evacuated. In Altena on Wednesday (July 14th, 2021) a young firefighter was killed fighting the floods. The police in Iserlohn confirmed this in the evening.
In the city regions of Aachen, the flood situation was also dramatic. A spectacular video is circulating on Twitter that shows a courageous rescue operation by the fire brigade in Stolberg.
Storm in Germany: Video shows spectacular rescue from torrential floods
As the Aachener Zeitung reports, all houses in the city along the Vichtbach had to be evacuated. The firefighters apparently took a high risk during the evacuation.
The Twitter video shows a fire engine fighting its way through the flood of water. After a few seconds you can see the rescue workers apparently rescuing a man from the flood and pulling him into the driver’s cab.
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And that’s not all: After the man has been rescued, the rescue workers drive through the middle of the extreme flood – apparently to warn residents in several houses of the floods and to rescue those trapped. In the later video, the rescue vehicle is completely submerged in the masses of water.
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The storm damage caused by the floods is already immense. The bad weather with a lot of heavy rain is expected to remain in Germany until Friday. The water levels should also continue to rise.
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