Six people went missing in Gard on Sunday March 10, the Gard prefecture reported at a press conference. “The provisional human toll shows one person missing in Gagnières this Saturday evening, three people missing in Dions at midnight, and two people missing in Goudargues at 5 a.m.”, depending on the prefecture. Follow our live stream.
Ten departments on orange vigilance. The orange flood alert is still in force on Sunday in Ardèche, Aveyron, Gard, Lozère and Var, Météo-France reports. The Alpes-Maritimes are on orange rain-flood alert until 9 a.m. Sunday and on avalanche alert until 5 p.m. In the South-West, Charente-Maritime and Gironde are on orange flood alert and Landes and Pyrénées-Atlantiques are on orange alert for waves-submersion.
Rainfall accumulations are locally very significantunderlines Météo-France in its 6-hour vigilance bulletin. “In the Cévennes we are already between 100 and 150 mm over the last 24 hours. In Ardèche, 224 mm were measured at La Souche (330 mm over 48 hours). 100 mm are reached in the Gard plains”we can read. “In the Var the accumulations are between 60 and 80mm, 150 mm are recorded in Méounes-lès-Montrieux”again notes Météo-France.
Around forty interventions in the Var. Firefighters from this department reported Sunday morning that they had “carried out around forty interventions linked to bad weather, including the safety of 17 motorists” and interventions on threatened homes with five people having to be rehoused. Preventive evacuations ordered by the municipalities concerned at least 90 people in the municipalities of Fréjus, Grimaud and Hyères, according to the same source.