The consequences of the violent storm Ciaran are still clearly visible in Finistère. This Sunday, we learned that the Pointe Bretonne department had also been the scene of a death following the passage of Ciaran. An Enedis employee mobilized to restore power was killed in Pont-Aven, in southern Finistère. According to his employer, this technician was mobilized “as part of the Rapid Electricity Intervention Force (FIRE) in Brittany following the passage of storm Ciaran”. He was apparently the victim of an accident, although the circumstances are not yet known.
Enedis learned of this death on Saturday evening, according to a press release. “The precise circumstances of this accident are not yet known,” adds Enedis, which indicates that a “time of contemplation will be observed when starting work on Sunday.” At the height of the episode, 3,000 technicians were mobilized to try to restore power, Enedis announced.
At the height of the storm, 1.2 million homes were deprived of electricity in France, including 780,000 in Brittany alone. At 6:30 p.m. Saturday, 134,000 Breton customers were still awaiting recovery, including 69,000 in Finistère alone, the most affected department. Brittany probably suffered less from the passage of Domingos, which mainly hit the south of the Atlantic coast.
Ciaran kills at least three people in France
Storm Ciaran caused at least three deaths in France: in addition to the Enedis employee, a fifty-year-old truck driver was killed by a tree that fell on his truck in Aisne, and in Le Havre, a septuagenarian suffered a fatal fall. after being hit by a shutter of his home following violent winds. A forty-year-old woman also lost her life on Thursday after falling into the water in the Sugiton cove, near Marseille, in circumstances that remain to be clarified.
Sunday morning, Météo-France ended the last orange alerts for “wind” and “rain-flood”. “The weather remains choppy with frequent showers” in the country and “the gusts that accompany them are less strong,” meteorologists described in their latest bulletin published Sunday morning.