The town center of Fontenoy-le-Château in the Vosges was flooded on Tuesday October 8. The incessant rain caused the Côney and the Vosges canal to overflow. The department is placed on orange alert for floods. There are no injuries. The residents were not evacuated.
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We are in Fontenoy-le-Château, 35 km from Épinal, not far from Burgundy-Franche-Comté, “but still in the Vosges”. With global warming, “Floods have tended to increase in recent years”. Thus, among the 500 residents, a certain number have already abandoned their ground floor to live on the first floor of their house, “only those who are at risk”this Patrick Wilmar, the mayor of the town.
There are streets that are underwater. But it’s been a while since it’s been this high. There are around forty people who are really impacted.
Patrick Wilmar, mayor of Fontenoy-le-Château
The Vosges prefecture specifies: the RD9 is cut at Xaffévillers following the overflow of the Mortagne (Rambervillers sector), the RD16 is cut at Balléville (Neufchâteau sector).
At the end of the afternoon, Estelle Bisval, communications delegate for SDIS 88, confirms “that everything is back to normal. The firefighters left. We intervened at eight o’clock this Tuesday morning. There were around forty of us. There were no injuries. Two people from an isolated house were displaced “. The children and adolescents of the IME, the Medical-Educational Institute, were kept safe on the upper floors.
“It rained all night,” Patrick Wilmar told us by telephone. The flooding started at 4 a.m. “There are streets that are under water. But it has been quite a while since it had risen this high. There are around forty people who are really impacted. But once the water is raised, once it is retracted, even 5 cm, it causes damage. The residents were not evacuated.
The Vosges department has been placed on orange flood alert since 4 p.m. this Tuesday and will be again tomorrow Wednesday, according to Météo France forecasts.
