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Severe Storms Trigger Debris Flows in Tyrol, 100 Evacuated by Helicopter

Civil protection warnings have been lifted following emergency airlifts that brought hikers and residents to safety.

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Die österreichische Gemeinde Gschnitz (Archivfoto)
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Overview

  • Severe thunderstorms with hail and heavy rain struck Tyrol on June 30, triggering multiple debris flows and landslides around Gschnitz, Neustift im Stubaital and Landeck.
  • Authorities raised a civil protection alarm and deployed Austrian Bundesheer helicopters to evacuate about 100 people from mountain huts and cut-off villages where foot descent was deemed unsafe.
  • Officials report no injuries after the airlifts, and a campsite in Neustift im Stubaital was evacuated as a precaution.
  • Cleanup crews have begun clearing mud from blocked roads and stabilizing vulnerable slopes as authorities continue to monitor for secondary hazards.
  • The incident follows a late-May glacier collapse in Switzerland, highlighting growing Alpine instability linked to rising temperatures and permafrost thaw.