The bad weather which hit the Hautes-Alpes on Friday caused significant damage and some 4,000 homes remain without electricity, the prefecture said on Saturday, according to which the decline has now begun and the situation is improving.
National road 94 remains cut at Eygliers in the Durance valley, indicates the prefecture in a press release. The Enedis and Orange teams are working to restore electricity in the Guillestre area and the mobile network in the north of the department.
The damage, currently being observed, will be significant around Guillestre, Eygliers and Risoul, the latter of which was still inaccessible on Saturday morning following the collapse of a section of road around thirty meters long. Many houses are impacted, according to the same source.
Three columns of reinforcement firefighters were dispatched to the area, bringing the number of firefighters engaged to 250, according to the prefecture.
The departments of Ain, Isre, Savoie and Haute-Savoie were placed on orange snow-ice alert on Saturday. The Hautes-Alpes have returned to yellow alert for avalanches, snow-ice and floods according to Mtofrance.