a flooded hospital in Val-d’Oise, 242 interventions by firefighters

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She was particularly feared. If the Storm Kirk caused significant damage in Île-de-France, Val-d’Oise, which had been placed on orange alert by Météo France, was rather spared. The heavy accumulations of rain that fell during the day and night from Wednesday October 9 to Thursday October 10, 2024 in the department however caused some floods,

At the origin of the incident, the overflow of eleven rainwater retention tanks which flowed into the basement and crawl space of the establishment. The flood threatened a room where thelow voltage electrical cabinete the hospital, at the center of the building’s electrical distribution, as well as a generator.

21 firefighters mobilized

Alerted around 5 p.m., the Val-d’Oise Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (Sdis) mobilized significant resources. Eight machines, including a truck capable of sucking up several hundred liters of water per hour, and twenty-one firefighters. These put in and were dispatched. For 7 hours, the latter carried out missions to exhaust and dry out the basement, their action having made it possible to prevent the hospital’s activity from being impacted.

242 interventions linked to bad weather

In total, the Val-d’Oise firefighters carried out 242 interventions linked to bad weatherduring the evening and night. If 92 firefighters were mobilized at the height of the activity“the management of other interventions was not impacted”, specifies an agent from the departmental fire and rescue operational center.

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