After the severe bad weather that hit the Alpes-Maritimes on Friday evening, significant damage is to be deplored on Saturday.
In Saint-Laurent du Var, residents filmed a beach littered with branches torn off by the storm.
A dozen people are missing in the Alpes-Maritimes on Saturday after the severe bad weather that hit the south-east of France on Friday evening.
While the winds and rains have calmed down, the time has come to see the damage, impressive, while some villages remain cut off from the world, without drinking water or electricity.
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On a video filmed on Saturday morning by a resident of Saint-Laurent-du-Var, near Nice, the beach of the small tourist town is littered with branches and pieces of wood probably torn off by the storm, tossed by the waves.
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Since Saturday morning, 952 firefighters have been mobilized throughout the Alpes Maritimes.
Almost a third of them came from other departments, as reinforcements.
Twelve helicopters have been dispatched, and there have already been 350 interventions, with more than 200 people brought to safety.