- Title: 'Flooded with support': Liege sets up crisis centre amid floods
- Date: 16th July 2021
- Summary: LIEGE, BELGIUM (JULY 16, 2021) (REUTERS) PEOPLE INSIDE CRISIS RESPONSE CENTRE, INCLUDING WOMAN COVERED IN HEAT BLANKET WOMAN COVERED IN HEAT BLANKET WOMAN COVERED IN HEAT BLANKET SITTING DOWN AT TABLE VARIOUS OF CENTRE WORKER PUTTING CANNED GOODS INTO CONTAINERS WOMAN LOOKING THROUGH BAG OF SWEATERS WOMAN PILING UP SWEATERS AND JACKETS VARIOUS OF MUNICIPAL WORKERS (SOUNDBI
- Embargoed: 30th July 2021 11:03
- Keywords: Belgium Liege Meuse crisis centre evacuations flooding rains residents
- Location: LIEGE, BELGIUM
- City: LIEGE, BELGIUM
- Country: Belgium
- Topics: Disaster/Accidents,Europe,Floods
- Reuters ID: LVA001EM3B2H3
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: PLEASE NOTE: EDIT 5087-EUROPE-WEATHER/BELGIUM-LIEGE-MORNING CONTAINS SHOTS OF FLOODWATERS IN LIEGE
City officials in the Belgian city of Liege have set up a crisis response centre to take in locals who have been displaced by rising floodwaters.
The centre, set up the gymnasium of the Grivegnee neighbourhood, has taken in 1,000 people, or roughly 250 families, since Thursday (July 15), municipal official Julie Fernandez told Reuters.
"We have been flooded with support, through community and city workers who made themselves available to come and put up the centre, and through the residents who demonstrated great solidarity," Fernandez said.
Floodwaters submerged roads, damaged houses and cars in the Belgian city of Liege on Thursday as residents of neighbourhoods bordering the overflowing Meuse river were asked to evacuate.
The city is hard-hit by the floods which have swept the south of the country and left at least six dead. The situation is set to worsen as the water is going to reach its highest level on Friday (July 16).
Record rainfall across western Europe has caused rivers and lakes to burst their banks in Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany and Switzerland.
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