His sister, who was in the same tent, was injured but was no longer in an absolute emergency on Friday morning. The heaviest tribute to Thursday’s deadly storm was that of an Austrian family, with the death of their 13-year-old teenager, killed by a tree falling on her tent, at the Sagone campsite. But the intensity of these storms no longer requires orange vigilance“, explained the organization in its last newsletter. “ Stormy showers still concern the island until mid-afternoon, especially the southern part, with a possible temporary increase in activity at the end of the morning. Météo-France lifted orange vigilance on the island. In the early morning, thunderstorms were rumbling again over Ajaccio, AFP noted, causing heavy rain, but from 10:00 a.m. “ The thunderstorms we heard them around 02:00, 02:30, but after that it calmed down“, she added.ĭespite the orange vigilance, the prefectures did not report any notable intervention on Friday morning. Laura Dennequin, 30, who slept in the Calvi Balagne sports center, testified to AFP of great solidarity between evacuees: “ We helped each other a lot, because we weren’t sure we’d have cots in time, so we went to the local Spar to get mattresses for the swimming pool.“. They then arrived by the hundreds in schools or sports centers all over the island, to sleep, some on their tent mattresses, some on camp beds set up for the occasion. In total, some 12,500 people from the various campsites in Corsica were “ made safe“for the night, according to the prefectures. In Calvi, the Foreign Legion evacuated entire families of tourists at nightfall, using military trucks. And an interministerial crisis unit chaired by Emmanuel Macron from Fort Brégançon (Var) had been activated to anticipate the measures to be taken for the Island of Beauty. In fear of a new dangerous stormy episode, Corsica had been placed in orange vigilance on Thursday evening. In the campsites, the stigmata of these unleashed elements were still unavoidable: to “ The Pinewood“In Calvi (Haute-Corse), this campsite where a 45-year-old man lost his life, the sheet metal roofs of several bungalows are crushed under the weight of huge uprooted pines.Īrrived in Corsica Thursday afternoon, with a passage in another campsite hit by gusts, in Sagone, in Corse-du-Sud, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin arrived in Calvi Friday morning, after an early morning visit to the bedside of several wounded at Ajaccio hospital. Because Thursday morning is a phenomenon “ exceptional“which hit the island, according to Météo France, with extremely violent and unexpected winds, which, in just a few hours, caused enormous damage.
“ A wind of death“: the front page of the daily Corse Matin reflected the shock in the Island of Beauty.
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