No one can pass anymore. Since Sunday, 584 people accommodated at the Canebières estate, in Le Muy, in the Var, have been stranded. Due to severe weather, a bridge, the only one which allowed access to this residential leisure park, collapsed, reports France Bleu.
“The bridge broke in two” when a river “which feeds the Argens started to take over,” explains Lilian Boyer, mayor of Muy. In the afternoon, three people were evacuated by helicopter to hospital and retirement home. The others are still on site, “safe and secure”.
Solutions to evacuate residents in progress
As the road is closed to access, solutions to evacuate residents are underway. The authorities are thinking in particular of repatriating them with “military trucks” to take them across “the little river”. According to the mayor, the sixty tourists who came to stay in the mobile homes on the estate will be repatriated and the other residents will be supplied with supplies so that “life continues on site”. “They have water and electricity and some provisions and then we will get organized,” Liliane Boyer told France Bleu.
Then we will have to find other solutions. For the road to be usable again, we must “build a bridge”, underlined the mayor.
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