Police are reported at 07.20 a.m. Saturday morning. Work is underway to prevent water from entering the Voss Cultural Center.
– It may seem that the peak of the flood on Voss, where the great clouds were, has been reached, COO Jürgen Omidal tells VG.
The crisis staff started lowering their shoulders at 04 tonight. We’ll have a case meeting now at 09, he says.
Storm in western Norway Destroyed it in the last 24 hours. Omidale explains that the police are not currently working in depth.
– Since there is no immediate danger to life and health, we are more supportive of municipal resources, he says.
says wing leader Jacob Haheim in the municipality of Voss BT Saturday morning that “there is a lot of damage and big things that have happened.”
– We should get an overview when it becomes light, he tells the newspaper.
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Police are asking residents in open areas to exercise caution and to avoid outdoor travel unless absolutely necessary.
Firefighting and civil defense all night long Worked like magic to control water. Police said they were still on the move Saturday morning.
– Work is now underway to secure the values, including preventing water from entering the Kulturhuset. We know there is already some damage. We’ll know more later in the day, when the waters recede, says VG’s COO.
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It is too early to quantify the physical damage to buildings and other things in general in the area. The police consider it mere speculation at present.
The municipality must eventually assess the damage to infrastructure, roads and railways.
closed roads
NTB reported that water still leads to closed roads. At 7 am there was a report of two new closures of county roads, Gjernesvegen and the road from Voss gymnasium.
The E16 between Bulken and Voss remains closed, with National Highway 13 and Highway 79 as a detour.
Flåmsbana is closed due to weather conditions, Bane Nor reports early Saturday morning.
Regarding train traffic, the Dale – Voss and Myrdal – Flåm section remains closed due to flooding. Vy doesn’t know how long it will take before the trains run as normal again, NTB writes.
What advice do the police give to people in the area?
– We don’t have specific advice, but there is still plenty of water high, so they should stay away from the river strips, says the operations director.
Power went out to a building housing 80 elderly people last night, but police say the fire service, Red Cross and crisis team are to blame.
The fire service evacuated five people yesterday, but the operations director did not hear of any evacuees during the night.
The biggest stress was last night and last night, says Omidal.
Reverse NRK The mayor of Voss, Hans-Erik Ringkopp, spoke of the approaching water level of the 2014 flood, and that at the time there was damage of half a billion crowns.
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