2023-09-20 21:05:00
The FPS Interior has decided to temporarily activate the number 1722 following a bad weather warning launched on Wednesday evening by the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium (IRM).
The aim of 1722 is to prevent emergency numbers from being overwhelmed by calls for interventions that can wait. In the event of damage caused by a storm or water damage for which assistance from the fire brigade is required, you must therefore call this number. If a life is in danger, you should call 112.
The FPS also recommends using the electronic counter 1722.be, considered “the most direct way to request help from firefighters in situations where no life is in danger”.
According to the IRM, an area of active rain will reach the west of the country during the night and will gradually move inland. Although there is no consensus in the different model outputs, several of them locally announce cumulative precipitation of 20 to 40 liters/m2 or mm in at least 25% of the provinces of West and East Flanders. and the extreme west of Hainaut, in a time interval of 12 hours or a little more.
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