The police are called to numerous operations in Moosburg and the surrounding area – one person dies there and two others are seriously injured. Trees fall in Lower Bavaria, in Munich there is a power failure in Bogenhausen.
During a severe hailstorm in the Upper Bavarian district of Freising, a 53-year-old cyclist was killed by a falling tree on Monday evening. A 15-year-old pedestrian and a car driver were seriously injured by falling trees, the police reported.
The head of the police department in Moosburg, Christian Bidinger, said the 53-year-old man from Baden-Württemberg was surprised by the storm with his wife on a bike path in Moosburg. A falling tree hit him hard. His wife was unharmed. The 15-year-old, who was traveling with a friend on the banks of the Amper, was seriously injured by a tree and flown to a Munich hospital in a rescue helicopter. The friend was unharmed. In Au in der Hallertau, a car was hit by a tree and the driver was taken to a clinic with serious injuries.
In the city of Moosburg an der Isar, which has around 20,000 inhabitants, and several communities in the surrounding area, the electricity also failed: “Everything is in the dark,” said the spokeswoman for the district office. The Technical Relief Agency set up an emergency power supply for retirement homes where ventilators had failed. Train traffic between Freising and Landshut in Lower Bavaria was blocked up to and including Tuesday due to storm damage.
The Moosburg area was without electricity for hours, numerous lines were destroyed. The district advised: “Inform your neighbors as a precaution and provide help if necessary. The fire brigade can be alerted if necessary via the siren triggering – at the equipment house/town hall. … Reduce your power consumption via rechargeable batteries and batteries to that essentials.” It was only shortly before midnight that the district office reported that the power supply had been restored – with the exception of the Wallen community. The storm also “hit badly” several communities in the north of the Freising district, said district fire officer Manfred Danner, who is the local operations manager in the Freising district.
Fire brigade, THW, police and rescue services are deployed with 400 emergency services. Roads were also closed due to the storm damage. There were large amounts of hailstones on sidewalks and roads.
A dozen fallen trees were reported in Lower Bavaria by the early evening, said a spokesman for the Lower Bavaria police headquarters in Straubing. In addition, a skylight was destroyed by hail.
In the area of the police headquarters in Oberbayern-Süd, no storm damage was reported until the early evening. However, Stadtwerke München recorded a power failure in parts of Bogenhausen in the evening.
The German Weather Service (DWD) has warned of extreme thunderstorms in Upper and Lower Bavaria. On Monday afternoon there is a risk of thunderstorms of warning level 4 out of 4 until 6 p.m., according to a statement. The DWD warned of lightning, uprooted trees and damaged roofs. Flooding of cellars and streets as well as local flooding of streams and small rivers are possible. Landslides could also occur. Staying outdoors should be avoided.