Several thousand children have been sheltered in the castle of Chambord, in the Loir-et-Cher, learned Saturday, June 4 in the afternoon franceinfo from the leaders of the Scouts Unitaires France, which meet on the site 30,000 people to celebrate the anniversary of the movement.
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In total, 12,000 children were sheltered within the castle. This precautionary measure was taken at the request of the Loir-et-Cher prefecture on Saturday. “We were alerted early enough to shelter“The youngest in the Château de Chambord, children aged between 8 and 12, specifies Denis Eyraud, one of the communication managers of the SUF movement.
Organized by the Unitary Scouts of France, the gathering was to allow young people to camp in the National Estate of Chambord, participate in games, activities and the Pentecost mass.
“All’s well that ends well, they came out of the castlesaid Saturday evening on franceinfo Jean D’Haussonville, director general of the national domain of Chambord. They will camp on meadows near the castle but especially not in the woods because there are falling trees“, specifies Jean D’Haussonville. According to him, “there was no panic, it was above all necessary to avoid crowd movements. There were still children, young people, who fell. So there’s been sprained wrists, ankles“.
“200 young people were taken care of, simply because they were cold, in hypothermia. But there was nothing serious, only minor injuries”.
Jean D’Haussonville, General Manager of the Château de Chambordon franceinfo
The director general of the national domain of Chambord believes that “it was a good idea to bring the children into the castle”. He says there was “a deluge for 20 minutes, very impressive, with hail and thunderstorms, windows of the castle swinging under pressure, a few jails on scaffolding that have fallen. luckily after the kids are home“.
Several towns in Touraine have also already been affected, since 4 p.m. Saturday, by episodes of brief and intense rain, sometimes accompanied by hailstones. This is particularly the case in the towns of Tours and Langeais. The prefecture of Indre-et-Loire affirms for its part that the firefighters intervened on 150 interventions, and that a road incident was caused by a lack of visibility causing an injury.
Météo France has placed 65 departments, including Loir-et-Cher, on orange alert for violent thunderstorms on Saturday and this, until the course of the night this Sunday. The thunderstorms will continue into Saturday evening and should end overnight Saturday through Sunday.