The firefighters had a lot of work in the province of Walloon Brabant and in Picardy Wallonia.
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DSevere thunderstorms broke out in several regions of Belgium, causing flooding and various damage.
Torrential rains in Hainaut
Thunderstorms, followed by torrential rains, erupted Thursday evening in Picardy Wallonia. The regions of Tournai and Mouscron were the most affected by flooding. We do not deplore any injuries, according to firefighters.
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“It is especially the entities of Tournai and Mouscron which have been affected. Paradoxically, some bordering areas have not had the slightest drop of water! Our teams intervened about fifty times for flooded cellars, clogged outlets, wet roads, mudslides, cutting operations of fallen trees on public roads as well as for covering roofs. To our knowledge, there were no accidents or injuries, ”we said on Friday shortly before 7:00 am at the Wapi dispatching center. In total, around thirty firefighters remained on the ground until midnight.
A mini tornado in Walloon Brabant
A mini-tornado occurred Thursday at the end of the day in Zétrud-Lumay, in the entity of Jodoigne, and many roads were flooded in the region of Wavre, we learned on Friday from the Walloon Brabant firefighters.
About a hundred calls were recorded at the central of the Walloon Brabant emergency zone due to the heavy rains which fell on the province.
The center of the Jodoignois village of Zétrud-Lumay was particularly affected by these bad weather. A woman had to be evacuated from her flooded home on rue Saint-Rémy. Several trees also cluttered the rue Grande Chavée.
“We witnessed a mini-tornado at this precise location,” comments the commander of the Jodoigne station.
In the region of Wavre, Grez-Doiceau and Ottignies / Louvain-la-Neuve, the rescue services were also strongly mobilized.
Overflows of waterways, mudslides on the roads and flooded cellars constituted the bulk of their interventions, some of which will still occupy the morning of Friday.
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