In Saint-Pair-sur-Mer, this Saturday, November 23, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., a noria of ambulances and medical transport made it possible toevacuate the 81 residents of the Vallon accommodation facility for dependent elderly people, where the heating and electricity had to be cut off.
“We are still warning familiesexplained Annaïg Le Jossic, the mayor of the town, this Saturday evening. Twenty-four of them were rehoused with their families. The other residents were transferred to other nursing homes throughout the Manche department..
Volunteers take turns working with residents
A crisis unit was set up by the prefecture within the establishment, in conjunction with Samu 50 and the Normandy Regional Health Agency, to coordinate this evacuation.
From Friday, firefighters, elected officials, nursing home agents, but also volunteers from the SNSM, the Red Cross and other associations took care of keeping the residents safe and watching over them before their transfer this Saturday. Nearly a hundred people in total were mobilized, according to the town hall.
Deprived of heating and electricity
In question: the flooding of the basement of the establishment from Friday. These are the aftermath of the Caetano storm. “Very significant amounts of precipitation fell, particularly hail, during the night from Thursday to Friday. storm pools that overflowed. We started to have a flood in the crawl space of the establishment which reached the basements where the heating room and the electrical panels are located.
The heating and electricity had to be cut off on Friday afternoon to allow pumping operationsprovided by the city's firefighters and technical services. “The water has risen up to 50 centimeters. It was quite spectacular” Never seen before, explains Mayor Annaïg le Jossic. Experts came on Saturday afternoon to make the first observations of the damage but as late as Saturday evening, water continued to seep into the basement. The Ehpad should not be operational again for several days.
