Strong winds in St. Petersburg increased the workload of city services and fire and rescue units. Over the past night, they had to go out 33 times to respond to calls from local residents.
As reported on the Telegram channel of the regional Ministry of Emergency Situations, rescuers responded to 25 calls to eliminate the consequences or eliminate the threat of falling trees. The remaining eight were related to preventing the fall of loose structures.
It is clarified that two cars were damaged as a result of bad weather. As he writes spb.kp.rua road sign fell on a car on the Kadetskaya Line, another fell near house 6 on Okhtinskaya Alley, and on Litke Street in Kronstadt the canopy of a container platform was blown off.
In addition, on Lake Dolgoye, the wind knocked down the recently installed New Year’s decorations.
There are no reports of casualties.
The city also announced a flood threat the day before – the wind in the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland raged with gusts as high as 28 m/s, raising waves.
Earlier it was reported that fallen trees blocked some sections of roads in St. Petersburg.
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Source: www.rosbalt.ru
