Yesterday, soldiers from the 133rd Light Infantry Battalion in Cieszyn began helping to remove the effects of dense rains in the towns of Leszna Góra and Cisowic and in Sosnowiec. present they will proceed to aid in Silesia. WOT soldiers besides moved to action in northern Poland, over which rainfall moved.
– present we pay peculiar attention to the situation in the north of Poland and in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. The situation is inactive hard in Nowy Dworze Gdańsk, where water is pumped out. It seems that after the last 2 nights, the biggest threat is behind us. Of course, the servants stay on full alert. The experience of fresh years shows that the weather in this area is truly unpredictable – said Marcin Kierwiński, Minister of Interior and Administration at the morning gathering of the crisis staff. At the request of the Warmia-Masurian voivodes, soldiers of the 4th Warmia-Masurian WOT Brigade started to assist in the territory of Tolkmicko Municipality in the Elbląski district.
Minister Kierwiński besides thanked all firefighters and fellows of the Fire Service Volunteers for their hard and self-sacrifice work and expressed appreciation for the military. He gave peculiar thanks to the Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamish for "the urgency of putting WOT in the highest readiness".
Deputy Minister of National Defence Cezary Tomczyk recalled that, in order to improve and accelerate aid in areas affected by flooding, two military task forces have been launched. They work all the time. At the minute it is 2089 soldiers," he noted. Summing up the military's actions in fresh hours, the politician said that after examining the request from the Silesian voivodships, soldiers carried out tasks in Silesia. – Soldiers from the 13th Silesian Territorial Defence Brigade removed the effects of storms in Goleszów. The territorials from this brigade besides removed congestion on the Brynica River in Sosnowiec. According to recommendations from yesterday's meeting, readiness was raised in the 9th Łódź OT Brigade – said Tomczyk and, directing words to the Brig-Gen. Grzegorz Barabida, Deputy Commander of the Territorial Defence Army, pointed out that peculiar attention should be paid to the northern provinces, as there "not even for meteorological reasons, but for hydrological reasons" military assistance may be necessary.
Brig. Gen. Grzegorz Barabieda confirmed that the soldiers' actions would proceed in the municipality of Goleszów and Sosnowiec. He besides added that support assessment teams operate in territorial defence troops independently of the voivods' requests. – They measure flood risks in individual voivodships, where the situation is most dangerous. Yesterday, these teams operated in Podkarpackie, Śląskie voivodships, as well as in Opole, including Głuchołaza. In these voivodships, WOT soldiers did not identify threats that would require additional forces to be directed – the deputy commander of territorial defence troops informed. The general besides acknowledged that this morning the commander of the 4th Warmia-Mazury Brigade of OT directed the support assessment squad in the Tolkmick area to measure the situation in terms of the request to direct additional forces and resources there.
Gen. Barabida besides pointed out that although the situation of the threat of dense rains to the north and north east of the country is now dangerous to the north and north of the country, the military does not forget what is happening in the south. “So we are afraid with the anticipation and request to destruct the effects of floods in these endangered areas, where the water has fallen. These tasks will be carried out in the coming days and, if necessary, in the coming weeks. We plan to concentrate the effort and engagement of WOT soldiers by the end of this week including the weekend," announced the general.
The deputy commander of the WOT besides stressed that "the Armed Forces of Poland carry out their statutory activities, train themselves, but besides support Border defender at bordersIt’s okay. ” – The situation related to the Genuese Departure caused additional forces to be distributed. We did not go from any boundaries, we did not quit on those tasks, said Brig. Gen. Grzegorz Barabieda.
On the another hand, super-brig. Wojciech Kruczek, chief commander of the State Fire Service, summarizing during the gathering of the emergency staff of firemen, reported that 3079 interventions were recorded yesterday. The largest number of events occurred in the Pomeranian Voivodeship – 755, 694 interventions were recorded in the Silesian Province, 472 in Łódź, 326 in Warmian-Masurian Province. By 8.00 today, firemen had to intervene 278 times.
