Almost 20,000 soldiers are fighting the component and helping to rebuild destroyed cities and villages. Strengthening shafts, working on bridges, clearing the area, but besides direct assistance to residents, besides medical – this is only part of the tasks that the military has been doing today. The places through which the flood went through were visited by president Andrzej Duda.
On Friday, straight active in the fight against the flood and its consequences was Almost 20,000 soldiers (including almost 6,000 territorials). The military continued to make and strengthen flood banks in Krosno Odrzański and Wrocław. In the afternoon, the Ministry of Defence reported that the Oder Bridge in Ścinawa was being checked, where the water level had risen and the first buildings had already flooded. The sandbags of the service strengthen the Bystrica shafts at the mouth of the Odra. “The critical areas are Brzeg and Lewin Brzeski,” said Prime Minister Donald Tusk during the evening crisis staff gathering in Wrocław. The hazard of water spilling through the shaft besides exists in Głogów.
Meanwhile, there is simply a large cleaning going on wherever the water has subsided. Soldiers are active in the desiccating of areas, e.g. in the Bank and in rebuilding their shafts, but They besides go to aid the villagerswho request support to remove debris or just household appliances. The military besides prepares the area for the construction of bridges. That's in the Deaf, where the DMS-65 bomb bridge will stand. First, however, it is essential to dismantle the elements of the collapsed structure, clear the riverbed and access roads. Engineering troops present besides recognized the area for the construction of the crossing in Wawrzeńczyce (Mietków Municipality).
– We are in those places where the water has already subsided and there are the effects of the flood," said Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, who met with local governments and representatives of emergency services in Lviv on Friday. We talked about the 364 national road and the bridge repair. This repair is already started and there is simply a chance that a key road pass will be launched for this region within a fewer days. There are many specified places.... The smaller bridges that have been broken are very many. We will get there with aid everywhere – declared the head of the Ministry of Defence.
Also president Andrzej Duda came to the areas through which the flood went through. In Lądek-Zdrój and Dłuchołaza, the president spoke to local officials and residents about the scale of the damage. I promised the residents that the aid would be provided all the time. The request for financial support, but besides equipment, especially industrial dryers, cleaners," said Andrzej Duda, noting that the effects of this year's flood are even more dramatic in those towns than in 1997. All hands on deck. Here you gotta work in accordance, the residents anticipate it – said the head of the armed forces, thanking, soldiers, officers, government and charity organizers.
At the same time, state institutions are alerting fraudsters who are trying to extort money to aid those in need. The Central Bureau of Cybercrime has already detected over 60 false collections of money for floods. Cyberspace defence troops call not to hazard and support only those collections that are verified and verified.
The restoration of water-filled areas will require not only large funding, it will besides be a long and complicated venture. “Reconstruction of destroyed areas is simply a immense amount of tasks, exceeding the capabilities of individual ministries and requiring coordination on very many levels”, said Prime Minister Donald Tusk at the morning gathering crisis staff in Wrocław. The coordination of these actions will be carried out by a government typical for the reconstruction of flood-stricken areas. This position was appointed by Euro MP Marcin Kierwiński (former head of the Ministry of abroad Affairs).
The inhabitants of water - ruined cities and villages can besides number on troops in the future. As announced by the General Staff under Operation Feniks, soldiers will aid build, among others fresh roads, bridges, railways and power lines, strengthen flood systems, supply medical and intellectual assistance and organize an evacuation system.
Most of these actions have already begun. There's a field infirmary in Nysa for 2 days. At the same time, 100 soldiers were sent to aid clean up the infirmary in Nysa to get the facility back to operation as shortly as possible. The army is besides preparing ten mobile medical outpatients. They will be addressed to smaller towns and agrarian areas where access to the healthcare strategy is peculiarly hard due to road damage. The first mobile medical squad has already started helping patients.
It is estimated that more than 25 1000 military will be active in the fight against the flood and its consequences this weekend.
