According to the police, vehicular traffic has been stopped on the old national road of Patras-Corinth, at the height of the Metohi area of Aegialia, due to a landslide of transported materials, following rainfall.
Problems in the traffic of vehicles in parts of the road network of Achaia are caused by the wave of bad weather that has hit the area since Saturday night.
According to the police, vehicular traffic has been stopped on the old Patras-Corinth highway, at the height of the Metohi area of Aegialia, due to landslide of transported materialsafter precipitation.
Traffic has also been suspended from the 1st kilometer of the provincial road Aigiou – Derveniu – Mamousia, due to a landslide of heavy materials and stones due to the rainfall, while the movement of vehicles between the communities of Dafnes and Paraskevi of the Municipality of Aegialia is conducted with difficulty, due to a landslide.
More than 80 calls were received by the fire service from last night to this morning in the region of Western Greece due to the problems caused by the occurrence of strong winds, storms and heavy rains.
The operations center received a total of 82 calls.
Firefighters cut down 41 trees and removed five objects.
The ban on the traffic of two-wheelers and trucks on the bridge of Rio – Antirrio has come into force, due to the intense weather phenomena.
In the meantime, with strong winds and heavy rains, the wave of bad weather manifested itself in other regions of Western Greecewhile due to the winds, trees have fallen in parts of the national highway Patras – Pyrgos.
In the area of Alfeiou Street, a truck was overturned by the strong winds that were blowing earlier in the area, as reported by ilialive.gr
Damage has also been caused to businesses in the area, such as a marble workshop, where the strong winds managed to move even the heavy slabs, but also to a car dealership, where the glass of the business could not withstand the force of the winds and collapsed.
The Civil Protection service of the Municipality of Pyrgos and the Fire Service are on hand to deal with the damage.
The fire department, police and civil protection are on hand to deal with any problems that arise.
Source: Skai
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