Fire department lifts vehicle

Masses of water pushed Viennese woman under bus

The Vienna fire department in action

(Bild: APA/Stadt Wien/Berufsfeuerwehr Wien)

Record rainfall in Vienna led to several hundred fire department call-outs on Saturday afternoon. In one case, a bus even had to be lifted - a woman had fallen in the bus stop area in Gunoldstraße and was pushed under a stationary bus by the water ...

The incident occurred at around 4.45 pm in Vienna-Döbling. The woman was unable to get out on her own, but was lucky that passers-by noticed her in time before the 10A bus departed. They drew the driver's attention to the woman who had fallen and the emergency services were called.

Here you can see a picture from Döbling.

Taken to hospital
The fire department was finally able to free the victim from her position by lifting the bus. The emergency services treated the 35-year-old woman and took her to hospital in a critical condition.

According to Ubimet, more than 110 liters of rain fell per square meter. There has never been so much rainfall in the capital since measurements began. In the affected Gunoldstraße, the train underpass was also flooded.

Hardly any rain in Favoriten
The urban area was affected unevenly by the storm. At the Unterlaa weather station in Vienna-Favoriten, for example, only 0.3 liters of precipitation per square meter were measured.