Storm chaos in Brandenburg: over 1000 fire brigade missions and injuries!

Storm chaos in Brandenburg: over 1000 fire brigade missions and injuries!

Storming storms in Brandenburg cause unrest and numerous operations by the fire brigade. Since Thursday evening, a heavy thunderstorm has hit the region and triggered more than 1000 missions. The north and west of Brandenburg are particularly affected, especially the Havelland, the Oberhavel and Potsdam. The fire brigades in the vicinity of Potsdam to the northwest count over 450 missions, such as The Tagesspiegel reported.

A tragic incident occurred in Potsdam, where a woman was injured in life threatening while cycling was injured by a falling tree crown. A man also suffered serious injuries, while the condition of the injured woman was not known in the morning. Fortunately, the control centers have so far reported no other injuries. The fire brigade moved out with full force to clear fallen trees of streets and roofs and to continue cleaning up in the Havelland and in Falkensee.

cleanup and challenges

The clean -up work is in full swing. London and Berlin fire brigades are also required, where around 750 weather -related operations were recorded. Many trees were uprooted here, which led to partial closures of forest areas and significantly impaired S-Bahn traffic on individual routes. Several people suffered serious injuries due to the storm. In the neighboring federal states of Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, the fire brigade comrades are also available at hundreds of missions, such as Deutschlandfunk supplemented.

After such dramatic weather events, the relevance of timely warnings by the German Weather Service (DWD) becomes clear. This initiated the natural hazard portal, which serves as a central point of contact for current warnings, risk information and prevention measures. Users can find information on weather extremes such as heavy rain, storms and floods and can call up specific data for your places of residence, which significantly improves the individual risk assessment, such as DWD emphasized.

a look ahead

Due to the continuous cooperation between several federal and state authorities, the portal always remains up-to-date and reliable. Future extensions could also include other natural hazards such as forest fires, earthquakes or avalanches. In the meantime, the population remains called up to stay attentive and take the weather warnings seriously, because nature is currently evident from its challenging side.