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Fire brigade operation site03. July 2025Fire brigade
FW Bocholt: After a heavy storm: fallen branches and flooded cellars in the city area
FW Bocholt (ots) -
A severe thunderstorm hit the Bocholt urban area within a short space of time early on Wednesday evening. Within an hour, the Bocholt fire brigade received numerous emergency calls. Nobody was injured. The emergency services were in constant action to deal with the consequences of the heavy rain, thunderstorms and locally heavy squalls.
According to Dirk Arping, head of the Bocholt fire brigade, Bocholt city centre and parts of Stenern were particularly badly affected. In addition to numerous flooded streets, it was mainly fallen branches and fallen trees that caused danger and damage. In the Dinxperloer Straße area, some manhole covers were even pushed out of their anchors by overflowing sewers.
There was considerable storm damage in Langenbergpark due to fallen branches, so the park was closed by the city's public order office as a precautionary measure. The city of Bocholt appealed to the public to avoid parks and other tree-rich areas during and immediately after the storm.
The fire brigade was deployed with all available resources. Units from the Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) were also called in to provide administrative assistance. The emergency services were also supported by forces from the public order office and the waste disposal and service company (ESB), whose employees were involved in removing branches and assessing the road safety of affected trees, among other things. In total, around 125 emergency services were deployed in the Bocholt city area.
"The total of around 180 operations are being dealt with one by one according to priority", said Dirk Arping, head of the Bocholt fire brigade. The operations were carried out into the night. We will still be working at individual sites the following day.
Please send any queries to:
Bocholt fire brigade
Michael Burhoff
Telephone: 02871 2103-0
Fax: 02871 2103-555
E-mail: michael.burhoff(at)bocholt(dot)de
www.bocholt.de/feuerwehr
Original content by: Bocholt Fire Brigade, transmitted by news aktuell
A severe thunderstorm hit the Bocholt urban area within a short space of time early on Wednesday evening. Within an hour, the Bocholt fire brigade received numerous emergency calls. Nobody was injured. The emergency services were in constant action to deal with the consequences of the heavy rain, thunderstorms and locally heavy squalls.
According to Dirk Arping, head of the Bocholt fire brigade, Bocholt city centre and parts of Stenern were particularly badly affected. In addition to numerous flooded streets, it was mainly fallen branches and fallen trees that caused danger and damage. In the Dinxperloer Straße area, some manhole covers were even pushed out of their anchors by overflowing sewers.
There was considerable storm damage in Langenbergpark due to fallen branches, so the park was closed by the city's public order office as a precautionary measure. The city of Bocholt appealed to the public to avoid parks and other tree-rich areas during and immediately after the storm.
The fire brigade was deployed with all available resources. Units from the Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) were also called in to provide administrative assistance. The emergency services were also supported by forces from the public order office and the waste disposal and service company (ESB), whose employees were involved in removing branches and assessing the road safety of affected trees, among other things. In total, around 125 emergency services were deployed in the Bocholt city area.
"The total of around 180 operations are being dealt with one by one according to priority", said Dirk Arping, head of the Bocholt fire brigade. The operations were carried out into the night. We will still be working at individual sites the following day.
Please send any queries to:
Bocholt fire brigade
Michael Burhoff
Telephone: 02871 2103-0
Fax: 02871 2103-555
E-mail: michael.burhoff(at)bocholt(dot)de
www.bocholt.de/feuerwehr
Original content by: Bocholt Fire Brigade, transmitted by news aktuell
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