Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) stressed on Monday, when asked about financial support for the disaster areas, that the disaster fund was “sufficiently endowed”. However, the financial damage cannot yet be estimated.
“I don’t want to commit myself to numbers here today,” stated during a press conference in Vienna. Damage commissions of the federal states and municipalities would have to raise the need. Karner confirmed that over the past few days up to 400 soldiers had been called in to provide assistance in the disaster areas. “Currently there were still up to 250 soldiers this morning.” In Slovenia, on the other hand, there are still no local supporters in action, which had requested help from the EU. Thousands of operations due to storms Since the storm began on Friday night, the Carinthian fire brigades have more than 3,500 operations managed, more than 4,200 firefighters were deployed – in addition to those from the affected districts, members of the disaster control train from Upper Carinthia and more than 200 firefighters from Lower Austria, who had arrived with large pumps. According to Governor Peter Kaiser (SPÖ), this year with 18,000 fire brigade deployments in Carinthia, as many as in the whole of 2021. The politician also appealed to the federal government on Monday to increase the civil protection funds due to the increasing risk of storms: “The states and municipalities will not be able to do it alone, unfortunately a new era is beginning “Insurance expects damage in the millions The Styrian State Fire Brigade Association said on Monday that most of the operations had been completed. A total of around 11,000 firefighters in Styria have been deployed in storms and flooding since Friday. Donau Versicherung is expecting damage in Carinthia of up to ten million euros. Since June, a good 2,800 damage reports have been received from the federal state, according to a broadcast on Monday. In Styria, the insurance company has registered just over 1,000 claims since the beginning of June 2023. Claims expenditures of around three million euros are currently expected in the Green Mark. However, the full extent will only become apparent after the clean-up work has been completed.
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