Corsica was placed on Orange Rain-Inondation alert until Thursday, April 16 at 4 p.m. Thursday. A Czech kayaker died during a descent of a river.
A Czech kayaker died this Thursday, April 17, afternoon, during a descent from the Tavignano river to the town of Giuncaggio (Haute-Corse) and while Corsica was on orange rain-round alert, the firefighters said.
The alert was given shortly before 2 p.m. and despite the rapid intervention of the emergency services with the firefighters of the High mountain Dragon 2B and the helicopter of the High mountain gendarmerie (PGHM), the 62-year-old Civil Security, the 62-year-old man, in cardio-respiratory arrest, could not be revived
Important accumulation of rain
Corsica had been placed on Wednesday evening at 22 hours on Orange Rain-Increation on Wednesday evening and switched to yellow alert on Thursday at 4 p.m., according to the Météo-France bulletin which specifies that “the precipitation associated with Hans depression” losing their intensity, they no longer justified the maintenance in orange alert.
Météo-France has noted since the start of the episode between 70 and 90 mm on Haute-Corse and up to 112 mm in Barbaggio, above Bastia. On the Corsica-du-Sud, the cumulators were more modest with 40 to 60 mm.
These bad weather gave rise to a dozen interventions by firefighters in Haute-Corse, mainly for clearances of roads after landslides, they said.
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