One person died and some 900,000 homes are without electricity in the south of France due to the passage of Storm Nils, which has triggered red alerts for floods, strong winds and avalanches, authorities reported this Thursday.
A truck driver died Wednesday night after a falling tree branch near Dax, in southwestern France, where gusts exceeded 160 km/h overnight, the prefecture reported.
According to the newspaper Sud-Ouest, which reported the accident, there were numerous falls of trees and power lines in that region, with more than 200 interventions by firefighters recorded in the early hours of the day.
Meanwhile, the regions most affected by the power outage recorded on Thursday morning were New Aquitaine (498 thousand homes) and Occitania (365 thousand), the network operator Enedis specified in a situation report.
The operator activated its Electrical Rapid Intervention Force (Fire), with 360 employees, to go to “the most affected regions.”
Since Wednesday night, 1,000 Enedis technicians and 400 employees of supplier companies were “premobilized” to intervene “as soon as conditions allow.”
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