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Mass evacuation was announced in Orenburg due to flood
In Orenburg, mass evacuation is carried out due to an extremely dangerous situation with floods. This was announced by the mayor of the city Sergey Salmin. A siren sounds in the city.
The water level in the Ural River over the past ten hours rose 40 centimeters to 11 meters 43 centimeters. Earlier, the authorities of Orenburg reported that on April 12, a flood in the city will reach peak values, and then the water would decline.
The authorities are asked to leave their homes of the residents of the LCD Grand Park, the villages named after Kuibyshev and Solnechny, the 23rd and 24th microdistricts, Uralskaya, Donguzskaya streets, the districts of air horsemen and the sheepskin town. "Take documents, medicines, essential things with you and leave the house immediately. Critical position, do not lose time!" -wrote the mayor in the telegram channel.
According to the administration of the Orenburg region, almost twelve thousand residential buildings and more than fifteen thousand personal plots remain flooded. There are no light in four settlements, electricity is periodically disconnected in the areas of Orenburg.
In Orsk, the level of the Urals decreased to 673 centimeters. Yesterday, April 11, it finally managed to fall asleep the hole in the dam, through which the city flooded. Before that, they could not cope with her due to too high water pressure.
More than 10.7 thousand people were evacuated from the injured areas of the Orenburg region, of which about one and a half thousand are in temporary accommodation points. Residents of flooded territories are in lines for water , humanitarian aid and in the MFC for the design of one -time payments.
In total, more than 10 thousand residential buildings in the region, 40% of them are not subject to restoration.
- The current flood in the Orenburg region is the largest in the history of observations in the region. Due to the pressure of water in Orsk, a dam broke through. The flood is assigned the status of an emergency federal nature. According to the latest data, infrastructure damage is estimated at more than 40 billion rubles.
- The evacuation of residents due to floods is carried out in several regions: in the Kurgan, Tomsk, Tyumen and Kemerovo regions. Kazakhstan also affected the flood: more than 86 thousand people were evacuated from the zones of flooding.