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Particularly terrifying are the early footage of the damage “Ianos” left in Lamia, as firefighters continue to pump water from flooded basements.
Lamia’s mayor, Thymios Karaiskos, has been on the streets since noon, along with municipal machinery and heavy earthmoving machinery. “We give priority to human lives,” he told APE-MPE. “It just came to our attention then. Difficulties lie ahead and the night is far away,” he looks at the Sperchios River, but also at the torrents around Lamia, which in the past have created insurmountable problems.
In several towns of Western Fthiotida they have felt the imprint of “Ianos” for good, since infrastructures were destroyed that bent in the enormous impulse of the waters.
The Lamia – Karpenisi highway, taken in several places, remains blocked, and the traffic towards Karpenisi is carried out through several auxiliary roads that could breathe. Many villages remain in the dark, after continuous power outages during the afternoon.
The great damages are located in the towns of Lianokladi, Zelefto, Kastri, Grammeni, Paliouri, Loutra Ypatis, Mexiates, Styrfaka, etc. It is characteristic that in the specific towns a large force of firefighters, earth-moving machines from the municipality and the Region have been transferred. the weight mainly in throws. As the firefighters point out, “the pumps in the flooded basements can wait, since we remove the water on one side and new ones come in on the other.”
Lamia in the eye of the cyclone
A new alarm sounded after 10 pm around Lamia and especially on its north side, as heavy rains occur more in the east and north of the city.
“The night will be far away,” says regional deputy governor Mr. Karakatzas, upon receiving new messages about vehicle entrapment in the village of Lygaria in northern Lamia, where a torrent passed through there. All forces are on red alert for flooding and east of Lamia, and into the Stylida area.
Source: ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ
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