Stormhorror – Mure buried house – residents seriously injured!

At first there was no way through, the entrance was blocked by masses of rubble, reports the Zell am See fire department. The emergency doctor had to be taken to the injured person in a Unimog.

Various mudflows in Pinzgau
In total, there were eleven fire brigades with more than 260 helpers in Salzburg at all times during the night. The focus was on Pinzgau; Kaprun and Zell am See were particularly affected; most of the rubble had to be removed. The emergency services still had their hands full in the morning.

Access to the glacier lift is closed
In Kaprun, the situation was “very critical,” Mayor Domenik David reported. Firefighters had to clear roads, pump out flooded buildings and redirect several streams back into the streambed. There were several landslides on Schaufelberg and access to reservoirs and the glacier cable car was closed.

Houses closed off from the outside world
The rubble partitions were already quite full after the storm a few days ago and now need to be emptied, according to the local boss. Two houses on the Schaufelberg are currently cut off from the outside world and the water supply is threatened. We are working on an alternative solution here. No injuries have been reported from Kaprun.

In the municipality of Niedernsill, a mudflow buried Mittersiller Straße (B168) overnight. No one was injured and buildings were spared. The fire department has now cleared the road and made it passable again.