Firefighters rescued a woman from a car swept away by water!

In the city of Kałków, water that flooded a local road swept a passenger car and its driver to the side of the road. As the duty officer of the Opole State Fire Service told PAP, the woman managed to be saved.

The incident occurred on Saturday. In the town of Kałków, a passenger car was driving on a local road in a place where flood waters had flooded the road. At one point, the car was swept to the side of the flooded road. Only part of the cabin protruded above the water level, where the driver was trapped.

Fortunately, the incident occurred close to the buildings. A rescue operation was carried out immediately. The frightened but healthy driver was pulled out of the vehicle.

— the duty officer of the State Fire Service in Opole told PAP.

Rescue teams are calling for extreme caution, especially in places where water is flooding roadside streams. In the south of the Opole Voivodeship, the flood situation is particularly difficult. Water was rising from the riverbeds of the Mora and Złoty Potok rivers. The alarm levels were exceeded in Biała Głuchołaska, Prudnik, Opava and Osobłoga. The mayor of Głuchołazy called on some residents of Jarnołtówek to evacuate. The mayor of Prudnik made the same appeal to the residents of the villages of Moszczanka and Łąka Prudnicka.

Currently, in addition to firefighters from the State Fire Service and the Voluntary Fire Service of the Opole Voivodeship, there are also WOT soldiers and sappers from the unit in Brzeg, cadets from the Central School of the State Fire Service in Częstochowa, and firefighters from the Łódź and Świętokrzyskie Voivodeships. Reinforcements from firefighters from the Łódź and Masovian Voivodeships are scheduled to arrive in the Opole Voivodeship in the coming hours.

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