{"id":7129,"date":"2025-10-08T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T09:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=7129"},"modified":"2025-10-08T09:00:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T09:00:29","slug":"romanian-emergency-crews-intervene-in-16-counties-bucharest-amid-heavy-rains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=7129","title":{"rendered":"Romanian emergency crews intervene in 16 counties, Bucharest amid heavy rains"},"content":{"rendered":"

Romanian emergency crews intervened in 47 localities across 16 counties and in Bucharest following heavy rains and storms during the night of Tuesday, October 7, to Wednesday, October 8.\u00a0The red code alert is expected to last until Wednesday afternoon<\/a>, and orange and yellow codes will be in place until midnight.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In Bucharest and Ilfov county<\/strong>, the number of interventions is increasing by the hour, with dozens of fallen trees and damaged cars, amid the red weather warning for heavy rainfall. In the last 24 hours, firefighters in the capital carried out 38 operations. According to the latest information cited by Digi24<\/a>, 18 damaged cars and 25 fallen trees have been reported.<\/p>\n

According to the Bucharest water authority Apa Nova, the Romanian capital saw 96% of the average monthly precipitation for October in just over 20 hours, laying stress on the city’s sewage system.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rainfall event was uniformly distributed across Bucharest, and the amount of precipitation led to a peak flow through the sewer system of ~112 m\u00b3\/s, comparable to the average annual flow of the Prut River (110 m\u00b3\/s), and a total volume of over 4.9 million m\u00b3, representing ~33% of the storage capacity of Lake Morii,\u201d the company added.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Metrorex teams intervened to drain water after leaks were reported at the Eroilor 1 and Eroilor 2 subway stations. Company representatives stated that there are no disruptions in train traffic and that the situation is being monitored.<\/p>\n

\u201cInfiltrations have also appeared in the underground infrastructure, located in an area naturally exposed to such situations,\u201d the subway company said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In Constan\u021ba County<\/strong>, two cars were swept away by the floodwaters, and firefighters used boats to rescue the people trapped by the water. Traffic is difficult throughout the county on Wednesday morning, as this has been among the hardest hit regions by rainfall. Several county roads are closed due to flooding between the localities of Doroban\u021bu and Nicolae B\u0103lcescu.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, seven localities are without electricity in Prahova County<\/strong>. Among them, four experience a total outage.<\/p>\n

Similarly, Giurgiu County<\/strong> is under a red weather warning for torrential rains until 3:00 PM. During this period, \u201crainfall amounts between 80 and 100 liters per square meter, locally even 120\u2013140 l\/sqm, may be recorded, with occasional lightning strikes.\u201d In this county, emergency services worked to evacuate water from 17 yards, homes, or indoor spaces in the city of Giurgiu.<\/p>\n

So far, no injuries or deaths have been reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a situation where a tree fell on a moving car, but fortunately, the occupants were not injured,\u201d said the head of the Emergency Situations Department, Raed Arafat. \u201cSerious situations can arise at any moment. Orange alerts can turn into red alerts, and if messages with recommendations are issued, we ask the population to pay attention,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Arafat explained that the authorities are constantly assessing the situation and are preparing for possible aerial interventions. \u201cWe are analyzing whether the Ministry of Internal Affairs aviation can be ready to intervene in case such situations arise, if weather conditions allow.\u201d<\/p>\n

radu@romania-insider.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

(Photo source: Departamentul pentru Situatii de Urgenta on Facebook)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Romanian emergency crews intervened in 47 localities across 16 counties and in Bucharest following heavy rains and storms during the night of Tuesday, October 7, to Wednesday, October 8.\u00a0The red code alert is expected to last until Wednesday afternoon, and orange and yellow codes will be in place until midnight.\u00a0 In Bucharest and Ilfov county, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}