Since Thursday, communities and emergency services around Leitha have been unable to catch their breath. There was still no clarity because the peak had not yet been reached. In the meantime, more than 400 Florianis from Burgenland are helping to combat the flooding in Lower Austria
The comrades of the Bruckneudorf fire brigade built a 200-metre-long dam from sandbags during the night from Monday to Tuesday, in case the water really rose as high as predicted.
“At the moment everything is holding up and it looks like we’re getting away with a black eye. But it’s still not certain,” says Mayor Gerhard Dreiszker. Because the expected peak of the water masses had not yet been reached on Tuesday afternoon. The water was still rising. A similar picture can be seen in the other Leitha communities in the Neusiedl am See district.
People are also waiting in Potzneusiedl. For the height of the flood. This was initially expected at 2 p.m. on Tuesday. Then it was postponed until 8 p.m. As a precaution, the bridge from Potzneusiedl to Deutsch Haslau was closed at 4.90 meters. Because the bridge is 5.03 meters high. The water has already found its way to all sides. A garden is under water, as is a meadow. It is expected that there will be no consequences for houses, except for two whose cellars could be full.
Cross-border cooperation
The emergency services of Lower Austria and Burgenland meet on the bridge. We discuss things together. District captain Ulrike Zschech is there again, as is Claus Paar, keynote speaker of disaster management and crisis management. And there is still only one thing you can do: wait. Because the emergency services did what could be done. They filled sandbags, built dams and opened locks. Now it is a matter of waiting to see when the summit will actually be reached.
I hope all the dams hold
“What is a bit worrying is that the peak level is expected to last for at least 24 hours before the level drops again,” explains Potzneusiedler Mayor Franz Werdenich. So it goes on: Please be patient. And hope that all the dams hold.
Burgenland expertise in flood areas is required
Just a few weeks ago, the fire brigades in Burgenland were themselves responding to flooding and were grateful for all the support. Today, your help from your neighbours is needed in Lower Austria, where heavy, persistent rain has left a trail of destruction.
More than 400 emergency services from Burgenland were deployed
A total of four disaster relief trains from the districts of Oberwart, Güssing, Oberpullendorf and Jennersdorf were in action on Monday and Tuesday with almost 300 people and 54 vehicles in the greater area of Baden, Alland and Tulln. The willingness to lend a hand and help is great. Many firefighters even went on holiday to pump out cellars or repair storm damage, says fire department spokesman Günter Prünner.
Pollutant specialists from Pinkafeld have prevented environmental risks
And the expertise of the Burgenlanders is in great demand. The pollution specialists of the Pinkafeld city fire brigade had difficulties, among other things, in preventing an environmental hazard. Heating oil had to be stored in a 400-meter cellar.
Burgenland’s armed forces were in action again on Wednesday
These are not everyday missions, but the experience you gain in your home country is now doubly valuable, everyone agreed, and it shows that the community stays together in difficult times. Today, 150 Florianis from Mattersburg and Oberwart are again deployed in disaster relief operations in Lower Austria.
Source: Krone
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