An emergency warning was despatched to Attica residents from the 112 Emergency Communications Service on Thursday, warning them of harmful climate circumstances and to keep away from all non-essential journey.
The unimpeded circulate of site visitors on Pireos Avenue was restored on Thursday afternoon, the site visitors police reported, after it was quickly interrupted at two factors because of flooding on the junctions with Petrou Ralli and Hamosternas roads.
Plan to evacuate residents in high-risk areas for flooding underway
The newly-formed local weather disaster and civil safety ministry on Thursday started to roll out a plan for the evacuation of residents in fire-stricken areas at a excessive threat for flooding, after the arrival of the low-pressure entrance “Ballos” introduced torrential rain to the larger a part of Greek territory.
Working with regional and municipal authorities, the ministry is taking the measure for the primary time as a part of a coverage targeted on prevention and the safety of human life as a prime precedence.
As ministry sources defined to the Athens-Macedonian Information Company (ANA), on the orders of Local weather Disaster and Civil Safety Minister Christos Stylianides, a strategy of recording and evacuating residents of homes which can be situated in gullies and ravines or different areas in northern Evia the place there’s a critical threat of flooding.
Native authorities are additionally on standby in Attica, particularly in Alepochori and areas in the remainder of western Attica that have been affected by fires in the summertime.
Roads towards the burnt areas have been closed because of the threat of landslides and floods the place folks could develop into trapped.
The evacuations can be selective and primarily of individuals which can be both aged or produce other issues that hamper their mobility within the case of flooding. They are going to be put up in inns, neighborhood centres for the aged and different areas supplied by native authorities for one or two days, till the climate entrance has handed.
The plan was selected throughout a gathering on the civil safety headquarters on Wednesday.
“The thought is to pre-empt the disagreeable penalties from the extreme phenomena,” a supply informed ANA, including that the federal government expects extreme storms in lots of areas from Thursday afternoon.
He defined that the areas thought of at a excessive threat for flooding have been people who have flooded up to now, which have been well-known to the native authorities which have undertaken the operational a part of this course of, whereas the plan requires the Hellenic Police and the fireplace brigade EMAK items to be on excessive alert in these areas.