The military is ready to supply assistance – Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz provided in the evening after the gathering of the Government Emergency Management Team. The gathering was attended by heads of ministries: defence, home affairs and administration; voivods and representatives of uniformed services: troops, police, fire brigades.
– 48 very hard hours await us – said Tomasz Siemoniak, Minister of Interior and Administration during the press conference. He warned that even half of the country is threatened by the effects of violent rainfall. – The situation is very dynamic and it is hard to foretell the course of events. We decided to run the resources. Zero hr is 20.00 – explained Siemoniak. He called for the follow-up of state agencies' communications, including RCBs, storm maps and reliable media.
Charge your cell phone, perceive to the uniforms.
The fact that the military is ready to aid was spoken by Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz. He informed that the territorial defence brigades had been put on alert, meaning that the territorialists had six hours to appear in the home units. The soldiers, as the Deputy Prime Minister assured, "have already moved to places that are possibly most at risk." At the same time, military personnel are preparing equipment to evacuate residents from endangered areas, including boats and helicopters for evacuation by air. The military is prepared to make field hospitals. The Government strategical Reserve Agency is besides ready for action, including the issue of equipment essential for floods.
The head of the MON asked civilians to follow uniforms, that is, military, firemen or police. "The situation is very dynamic and very serious. All state services have been raised in a state of advanced alert, especially in areas that are peculiarly vulnerable. The situation in which we are required to be disciplined and subject to the dispositions which we will hear – emphasized Deputy Prime Minister Kosiniak-Kamish.
Ministers called for the evacuation of scout camps to public buildings and for consideration of the departure of campsites by tourists in areas where the most intense rainfall is expected. It is about voivodships for which the level of hazard was assessed at the 3rd level (e.g. in Mazowiecki). The services besides remind us of the request to prepare for possible leaving homes and charging mobile phones and power banks.
Territorials strengthen the waves
Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz confirmed the information that territorialists strengthen any sections of floodbanks. The 13th Silesian Territorial Defence Brigade issued a announcement on the substance in the evening. "In view of the forecast of dense rainfall, soldiers from the 133th Light Infantry Battalion of Cieszyn began to strengthen the flood banks of the Ilovnica River. presently there are 50 soldiers of the 13th Silesian Territorial Defence Brigade in Czechowice-Dziedzice,” the release states.
Where's the worst place?
On Tuesday at noon, troops of territorial defence were already on advanced alert. in 8 voivodships that were most threatened by rain. It is about Małopolskie, Śląskie, Podkarpackie, Świętokrzyskie, Łódź, Mazowieckie, Opolee and Lubline.
According to forecasts, the biggest rains and storms are to pass through Poland at night from 8 to 9 July. Synoptists inform that in any areas it may fall as much rain as the average rainfall in July and August. Warnings about flooding and information to avoid e.g. the Warsaw section of the S8 way were issued by the Mazowieckie local government. According to experts present at the government gathering of the anti-crisis team, dangerous situations can happen in both cities and mountain areas.
Soldiers in Operation Feniks
The military besides helped residents of the areas that flooded the flood wave last autumn. Operation Feniks active operational and territorial troops. Their tasks included, among others, evacuation of people from flooded areas, assistance in clearing up areas destroyed by the flood wave, including cleaning of private and public buildings, training of transport routes and reconstruction of road infrastructure, medical assistance or reconstruction of public utility facilities, e.g. setting up container kindergartens. Let us remind you, soldiers engage in anti-crisis actions and decision to aid civilians at the request of the local authorities.
