Forty residents of a hospital in Pont-de-Vaux (Ain) had to be evacuated overnight from Saturday to Sunday after part of the roof of the establishment was torn off by the wind, a-t -we learned from the firefighters.
The Ain was placed on Saturday in orange vigilance for the storms, which affected the northwestern part of the department, where Pont-de-Vaux is located.
Transferred to two other hospitals
The forty residents were transferred for thirty-eight of them to a hospital in Bourg-en-Bresse, two others in Mâcon (Saône-et-Loire).
The operations lasted until shortly before 3:00 a.m., carried out by firefighters but also private paramedics and approved civil protection associations.
The Pont-de-Vaux hospital, essentially geriatric, also hosts an Ehpad.
160 firefighter interventions
According to the firefighters, 115 patients were able to stay on site, not being affected by the damage, which destroyed 100 m2 of roofing.
In this same city, in the afternoon, the firefighters had also had to intervene to disembark 45 passengers from a municipal cruise ship, blocked on a canal by tree trunks and branches whose fall had was caused by the storm.
In total, the Ain firefighters carried out 160 interventions between Saturday and Sunday, mainly for roof covering operations.