Bad weather in the south of France: a missing person in the Var

"The vehicle was potentially swept into a ford in the town of Saint-Paul-en-Forêt (Var), but the current conditions make the research very difficult," said the firefighters, saying wait for a helicopter to illuminate the site.

A person is missing in the Var (south-eastern France), Sunday, December 1, carried in a vehicle that allegedly attempted to cross a ford, while the department is still alert red rain-flood, as the Alps- Maritimes.

Hit by a second Mediterranean episode after the one that had caused the death of six people the previous weekend in the department, the Var has been on red alert since Sunday morning. The situation worsened in the late afternoon with increased precipitation.

🔴 # RainsInondations The rains intensify in #Var and #AlpesMaritimes departments.
#RedVigilance is maintained tonight.

⚠️ Stay at home, upstairs, do not go down mostly in the basement.
➡️ Only evacuate by order of the authorities. pic.twitter.com/ZokrvhvxWl

210 interventions, four victims in "relative urgency"

At 9:30 pm, according to the last point made with firefighters, 210 interventions took place during the day and a total of 76 people were secured, with four victims in "relative urgency". Many interventions and recognitions were still in progress.

Relief was particularly involved Fréjus, where a district was invaded by water, and Puget-sur-Argens and Roquebrune-sur-Argens, two municipalities already hit hard last weekend.

Sunday night, the Alpes-Maritimes were also hit hard with several flooded neighborhoods in Mandelieu-la-Napoule and Cannes.

In Mandelieu, "the city is totally devastated" affirmed the general manager of the city, David Konopnicki, quoted by the daily newspaper Var Matin, fearing "a third very intense wave of precipitations" towards 22 h.

"The floods will be sudden and numerous, the only emergency at this stage is to save lives," said Cannes Mayor David Lisnard on Twitter. According to him, "there will be more individuals affected than last weekend".

Given the violence of the rains there will be more individuals affected than last weekend. I am at the Floribondas where we urgently evacuate residents. I am there with them. The municipal emergency shelter in Coubertin will welcome them.

The Prefecture of Alpes-Maritimes has already announced, Sunday evening, the closure of all schools in Cannes, Mandelieu and Pegomas, commune struck by a mudslide.

In the face of heavy rainfall in the area, the A8 motorway was closed in the early evening, in both directions, between the interchanges of Nice Saint-Isidore and Cannet-des-Maures.

With AFP