2023-06-22 20:16:37
– A man dies by lightning in Haute-Savoie
A man in his fifties died Thursday afternoon struck by lightning in Gaillard, Haute-Savoie, during the violent storms which fell during the day on the French department.
Posted today at 10:16 p.m.
Violent storms hit France and Switzerland on Thursday.
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A man in his fifties died Thursday afternoon struck down by lightning in Gaillard, Haute-Savoie, during the violent storms which fell during the day on the department, we learned from the firefighters. The drama took place shortly after 5:00 p.m. in a parking lot in this town of 11,500 inhabitants located south-west of Annemasse, they said, confirming information from France 3 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. “The victim was declared dead on the spot despite the rapid intervention of first aid,” the same source explained. Ten people who witnessed the lightning strike were taken care of by the department’s medico-psychological emergency unit, attached to the Samu.
Météo-France had placed eleven departments on orange thunderstorm vigilance on Thursday morning, then reduced this figure to seven (Ain, Ardennes, Drôme, Isère, Rhône, Savoie and Haute-Savoie) in the middle of the afternoon, before lifting vigilance orange thunderstorms at the end of the day. “These storms, mobile, were associated with strong rain intensities, punctually large hail and violent gusts of wind often exceeding 100 km / h”, specified in a press release Météo-France.
The electrical network impacted
The Alpes regional management of Enedis indicated that the electricity network of Haute-Savoie but also that of Savoie had been impacted by bad weather with at the height of the day “nearly 45,000 customers deprived of electricity”. “At 7 p.m., 28,000 customers still need to be resupplied, including 8,000 in Savoie and 20,000 in Haute-Savoie,” added Enedis, which has deployed 100 technicians on the ground accompanied by specialized partner companies.
The Haute-Savoie firefighters also indicated in a press release that nearly 160 interventions were recorded around 7:00 p.m., “mainly for exhaustion (water pumping), falling trees or tiles”. They added that the situation was in the early evening in the process of stabilization but “that trees and roofs” (could) be “weakened”, before inviting the population “to be very careful”.
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