“Last night, there were 49 departures recorded. (…) It happens that during one departure, firefighters remove 50 or 20 (trees – BNS). Southern Lithuania dominates – 25 times trips were made to Alytus County. Kaunas and Vilnius counties were also among the dominant ones,” said Saulius Raščevskis, a specialist from the Fire Protection and Rescue Department (PAGD) Situation Coordination Division, to BNS on Friday morning.
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“Mainly, fallen trees were removed from the roadway. Several departures involved removing trees that had fallen on cars, one departure involved removing trees that had fallen on a building, and several departures involved trees on power lines. To our knowledge, there were no injured or deceased people,” he assured.
According to the “Energy Distribution Operator” (ESO) outage map data, currently about 2.2 thousand residents in the country are without electricity due to disruptions, with 57 disruptions recorded. Most residents without electricity are in Alytus, Kaunas, Utena, and Klaipėda counties.
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Simona Dalinkevičiūtė, a meteorologist at the Lithuanian Hydrometeorological Service (LHMT), said on Thursday that summer storms may become more frequent in the future, and residents and municipalities will have to adapt to more frequent extreme weather.
According to LHMT data, on Friday, short rain is expected mostly in western regions. Wind from the west, northwest, 8–13 m/s, highest temperature 21–26 degrees Celsius.
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