More than ten days since the first requests for assistance have been submitted the EU Member States continue to assist Serbia at the same pace in flood relief efforts.
France has doubled its rescue team, so it currently has 89 people deployed on two sites.
At the moment, a 49-member French rescue team, including eight newly arrived members, and alongside the current equipment now equipped with additional two high capacity pumps and a draining pump unit, is deployed in the area of Kostolac.
Another 40-member team equipped with a water treatment unit of a full capacity of 225 000 liters of drinking water a day is currently deployed in the area of Ćuprija and Svilajnac.
Austrian, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Slovenian, Romanian, and French pumping teams are engaged in draining residential buildings, private houses, and stores, as well as pumping out the water near flood protection embankment on the Sava river in Šabac and Obrenovac.
Apart from French team engaged in water purification in Ćuprija and Svilajnac, another German team has started to do so in Obrenovac.
EU Civil Protection Team and Member States’ experts also provide their assistance in needs assessment on the ground, in particular the condition of protection walls at critical points.
