Poland’s State Fire Service recorded 2,200 interventions, mainly related to removing the effects of heavy rainfall, local flooding, and strong winds, according to the press spokesman of the Chief Commandant of the State Fire Service, Senior Brigadier Karol Kierzkowski.
The largest number of incidents was recorded in the Podkarpackie province (1,200), where four people were also injured, followed by the Małopolskie province (500) and the Lubelskie province (300), the spokesman said.
Kierzkowski said that firefighters were operating across the country, cleaning up flooded streets, basements and residential buildings; removing fallen trees from roads, buildings and vehicles; and securing the scenes of incidents and endangered facilities.
Nearly 800 State Fire Service and Volunteer Fire Service firefighters from the Podkarpacie region were involved in operations; the State Fire Service was reinforced by an additional 60 firefighters.
In Bratkówka (Krosno County), lightning struck a tree that fell on a building, and a person inside had to be taken to the hospital with a head injury. In Dobrynin (Mielec County), one person was electrocuted as a result of a broken power line, and in Leżajsk and Przemyśl counties, branches falling on cars injured two people.
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