GERMANY: MOST PARTS OF THE GERMAN TOWN OF DESSAU ARE STILL FLOODED AFTER A DAM BROKE

Record ID: 584854

  • Title: GERMANY: MOST PARTS OF THE GERMAN TOWN OF DESSAU ARE STILL FLOODED AFTER A DAM BROKE
  • Date: 20th August 2002
  • Summary: (U4) DESSAU, GERMANY (AUGUST 20, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SLV/LV OF MAN WADING THROUGH FLOODED STREET, CARRYING HIS SHOES (2 SHOTS) 0.11 2. CU/SLV HEATING OIL FLOATING IN FLOODED STREET (2 SHOTS) 0.20 3. SV/CU MAN NEUTRALISING HEATING OIL WITH WHITE POWDER (2 SHOTS) 0.33 4. TRACKING SHOTS/SV OIL CONTAMINATED WATER IN FLOODED STREET/PEOPLE ON BOAT (2 SHOTS) 0.57 5. SLV WIDE OF FLOODED HOUSE 1.02 6. CU PIGS STANDING IN FLOODED BARN, WATER REACHING THEIR NECKS 1.11 7. SLV VAN SUBMERGED IN WATER 1.16 8. CU CAR IN WATER 1.22 9. TRACKING SHOT OF FLOODED STREET 1.29 10. SV COUPLE CARRYING CAT CAGE THROUGH WATER 1.39 11. CU OF CAT IN CAGE 1.42 12. CU OF DESSAU RESIDENT IN BOAT/CAT IN CAGE (2 SHOTS) 1.52 13. MCU (German) HEIDI RICHTER, DESSAU RESIDENT SAYING: "Medication is missing and those who filled sandbags need to get jabs. We need those edications." 2.04 14. TRACKING SHOT OF FLOODED HOUSE, WINDOWS SUBMERGED IN WATER 2.09 15. SLV HEIDI RICHTER CARRYING CAT CAGE TO DRY STREET 2.16 16. SV/SLV MAN ON HOME-MADE FLOAT OUTSIDE HOUSE (2 SHOTS) 2.28 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 4th September 2002 13:00
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  • Location: DESSAU, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVA6T436919VOO2TS0U270WH0MOU
  • Story Text: Most parts of the eastern German town of Dessau are
    still flooded after a dam broke a day earlier, caused by a
    flood wave which has caused death and destruction in central
    Europe.



    Leaking heating oil tanks on Tuesday (August 20)
    threatened to contaminate the environment. Oil slicks were
    seen in flooded streets of the Waldersee district of Dessau.

    It was flooded a day earlier when despite the work of
    hundreds of soldiers and volunteers who built walls of
    sandbags, a nearby dam failed.

    In one Dessau barn, pigs were standing neck deep in the
    water.

    But hopes grew on Tuesday that the worst of the floods may
    be over in Germany.

    The city of Magdeburg was spared flooding overnight and
    according to the environment ministry for Lower Saxony in
    northern Germany, dykes were expected to hold in the region.

    After Magdeburg, there are no major cities along the Elbe
    until Hamburg, which is not expected to flood.

    The Elbe river rose less than expected and peaked at 6.70
    metres in Magdeburg, 130 km (80 miles) west of Berlin, early
    on Tuesday morning, a spokeswoman for the city's crisis centre
    said adding that they were very pleased with how the dykes
    held.


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