“Unfortunately, the situation in the country is still tense. Unfortunately, we also have one fatality, and we want to express our condolences to his family and relatives. We also have three injured persons. The situation with electricity supply is particularly complicated at the moment,” the Prime Minister told journalists.
He spoke this way after the inter-institutional meeting on Sunday morning regarding the elimination of the storm’s consequences.
The storm disrupted electricity supply, with the greatest damage done in the Kaunas region. According to Sunday morning data, nearly 3 thousand faults were recorded across the country, leaving almost 220 thousand users without electricity.
According to the Prime Minister, there are no plans to declare a state of emergency nationwide. M. Sinkevičius stated that representatives of institutions participating in the meeting also indicated that military assistance is not currently needed in removing the consequences.
The head of the “Energy Distribution Operator” (ESO), Renaldas Radvila, assured that about 220 thousand residents currently have no electricity.
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“Today we expect to have a preliminary assessment of how long the restoration of the entire network may take,” he said.
According to Saulius Tamulevičius, Deputy Director of the Fire Protection and Rescue Department (PAGD), the General Help Center received over 24 thousand calls.
As BNS wrote, a tree that fell in the Anykščiai district on Saturday evening fatally injured a man. According to PAGD data, he was fishing at the time of the accident.
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According to meteorologists, Saturday’s storm was the strongest recorded storm this summer.
