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Torrential rain on Monday flooded streets and properties in Poland, while summer scout camps in the countryside were evacuated as a precaution.

The State Fire Service on Monday afternoon reported that firefighters across the country responded to 1,700 call‑outs.

The highest number of interventions was carried out in the southwestern Silesian province (598), the northern Pomeranian province (162), the central Łódź province (284), and the southern Świętokrzyskie province (167).

As a precaution, all scout camps in the affected provinces were evacuated, with 330 scouts and 68 counselors transported to safer locations.




Intense rainfall from a Genoa low-pressure system—a weather phenomenon that forms south of the Alps— began on Sunday morning and persisted into Monday.

The southern part of the country was hit hardest by the deluge.

The rainfall not only flooded streets and tunnels but even buses, as the residents of Krakow, southern Poland, discovered on Sunday.

A flood alert was issued in the southern city of Bielsko-Biała on Sunday morning due to the rising levels of the Biała River and surrounding streams. The town made sandbags available to residents.

Flood warnings have also been issued in northern parts of the Czech Republic. Intense rain in the northeast of the country has caused several smaller rivers to rise.