After the fire, the flood.
This Tuesday, 18 adults and four children were brought to safety in Pignans in the Var, while the town is in the grip of significant flooding, learned 20 minutes from the firefighters of the department.
At the end of a violent and localized thunderstorm, 120 mm of water fell in half an hour on this town east of Brignoles.
"The firefighters engaged rescued two adults in a vehicle carried on the RD97", specifies this source.
The other evacuees were "in their vehicle, on the public highway or in their home".
Nearly 90 firefighters were mobilized to deal with these floods.
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