Storm Monica: three dead, four people wanted and six departments on alert

Three people were arrested. found dead after the passage of the storm Monica and four others are missing and still being sought this Monday, March 11. Six departments are still on orange alert.

Six more departments are placed on orange flood alert this Monday, March 11 at due to the passage of storm Monica. The depression caused damage and led to the death of three people in Gard on Sunday March 10. The victims wereé carried away by water while trying to cross submersible bridges. Three people are still missing in the Gard department, they are a father and his two aged children. aged 4 and 13. The mother wasé rescued by firefighters and a helicopter flies over the area to try to find the victims. A fourth person is also sought this Monday in Ardèche. "People's vehicles wereé found, but not the people at the time they were found. I'm talking to you, said yesterday the Minister of the Interior, G&rald Darmanin, from the Interministerial Operational Management Center ;riel of the crises of Place Beauvau. 

The search resumed this morning after having been launched. paused tonight "taking into account the situation of the rivers" explained à AFP the deputy departmental director of the Gard firefighters, Thierry Carret. The device must be “recalibrated” depending on the decline in watercourses" and the situation remains dangerous again this Monday.

In Charente-Maritime, also placed on orange alert, an 80-year-old man was arrested. found died on a beach in Saint-Martin-de-Ré, on the Ile de Ré, Sunday March 10, according to information from Sud Ouest. The man had been killed. taken care of by firefighters who flew over the area to monitor high tides. Help did not reach the scene. resuscitate him. It would be a fisherman at sea. foot.

Which departments are on orange alert ?

Six departments remain on flood orange alert this Monday, March 11: Charente-Maritime, Gironde, Puy-de-Dôme, Pyr&nées-Atlantiques, Saé ocirc;ne-et-Loire and Yonne. But 44 other departments are placed on yellow alert for floods and sometimes for other phenomena, notably for thunderstorms in the south-east or for storms. nbsp;rain-flood in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques. Charente-Martime is facing the storm. double orange vigilance until 'à 9 hours. The department is warned of the risk of wave-submersions.

The floods are not yet over, "the levels are at " the rise in the Allier basin and near Puy-de-Dôme according to the detailed assessment of Vigicrues. On the Atlantic coast it is the tidal coefficients which will gradually increase until tomorrow" and pose the risk of overflows. But the recession has begun in the south-east of France and the Cévennes.

Nearly 250 firefighters and 4 hélicopters from the gendarmerie were attacked. mobilized during the night of Saturday Sunday. On site, we are waiting for reinforcements “coming from Bouches-du-Rhône, Vaucluse and Hérault, and a helicopter coming down from Lyon& ;quot;, explainedé the general secretary of the Gard prefecture who "strongly renews the messages of caution & the entire population of Gard.