Flood in Valle d’Aosta and Piedmont, the newborn baby saved from the flood

The damage offlood in Aosta Valley and Piedmont amount to millions of euros. In Cogne, the flooding of the Grand Eyvia torrent has submerged part of the camper area square, but the town is isolated. Breuil can be reached, but the damage is enormous. The firefighters have been at work for days. After the almost 500 people rescued yesterday, another 700 people must be rescued today by helicopter from Cogne.

Among the people rescued is a Belgian family whose story is told by the newspaper La Stampa starting from the call for help that arrived at the switchboard of the single emergency number around 1 am. A woman who speaks English and says she has only water and vegetation around her. Her husband is still trapped in the car and she has her 5-month-old daughter in her arms.

The Belgian family had remained stranded on an island in the middle of the Orco stream and was surprised by the flood. Father, mother and little girl are identified thanks to the GPS on the woman’s phone. More fire brigade teams left from the voluntary detachments of Chivasso and Montanaro. While a policeman talks to the woman on the phone, a team walks along the bank. The husband managed to get out of the cockpit of the off-road vehicle recovered the next morning further down the valley. The Belgian family was rescued by dinghy from the river bank to the islet. The rescue operations ended at 5 in the morning. The father and daughter spent a couple of hours in the emergency room of the Chivasso hospital.