Around Knittelfeld

Styrian emergency services once again challenged by storms

The road between Kobenz and Seckau was flooded on Wednesday.(Bild: Thomas Zeiler)

No respite for the Styrian emergency services: on Wednesday evening and during the night into Thursday, dozens of firefighters were again deployed in the Knittelfeld area alone.

Not a day without severe weather - the Styrian emergency services have been working non-stop for days, in some places even weeks. Although the particularly hard-hit areas in Upper and Western Styria were spared to some extent on Wednesday, the capricious weather again caused massive damage in some places. 

In Knittelfeld, the fire department had to protect covered roofs.(Bild: Thomas Zeiler)

The area in and around Knittelfeld in the Mur Valley was particularly affected this time. In Seckau, for example, the road to Kobenz was flooded on Wednesday evening. In Spielberg, the roof of a horse stable was covered by the storm. In the center of the Ring community, the Florianis fought against the ingress of water into an apartment building. 

In Knittelfeld itself, water entered a residential building after a lightning strike, and the firefighters also had to cover the destroyed chimney and parts of the roof of a house with tarpaulin. The operations lasted late into the night for 52 male and female firefighters.