Unnecessary operations

Even in a wheelchair, flood barriers were ignored

The wheelchair user had to be rescued.(Bild: Feuerwehr Krems / Manfred Wimmer)

In the worst emergencies, Florianis have often had to be called out "unnecessarily" over the past few days because people recklessly put themselves in danger and ignored barriers. Even a wheelchair user had to be rescued as a result.

The firefighters certainly couldn't complain about a lack of tasks over the past few days. On the contrary: what the volunteers have achieved during the flood disaster can hardly be put into words.

This driver needed help after ignoring the barrier at the S33 exit.(Bild: Freiwillige Feuerwehr Traismauer-Stadt)

It was all the more annoying for them when they had to go to locations that weren't actually there. Because people simply ignored barriers and put themselves in danger.

Falling over
The best example: a wheelchair user who drove into a cordoned-off area along the river of the same name in Krems and fell. Fortunately, passers-by had heard the man's cries for help and secured him to prevent him from slipping. The comrades finally brought him to safety.

Despite being cordoned off, the driver crashed his car into a mudslide.(Bild: Freiwillige Feuerwehr Schönberg am Kamp)

Warnings of a mudslide were issued in the badly affected Schönberg am Kamp. Nevertheless, a driver drove on in his car - and got stuck after a few meters. The fire department was able to free him as well as a driver in Traismauer, St. Pölten district, who got stuck in the masses of water on the closed S 33 slip road. "Road closures are not set up for fun. If you ignore them, you tie up emergency services that are urgently needed elsewhere," is the appeal.