Disasters - memories - Cârna

April 2006: The Danube is raging in Dolj

In April 2006, in Cârna locality, the rage of the Danube affected the whole locality and the waters have broken the pier from Bistret. Thousands of people  were evacuated from the affected areas, some of them being forced to do that. The soldiers  made new efforts  to strengthen the pier and to cover the cracks from the defence pier. The divers were inspecting if there were also cracks in the pier from Bistreţ, besides the gaps which have been formed. Tens of houses  were crushed, and the Danube  was connecting Negoi locality to Rast, the road being covered by water.
The river continued its way  in dry land, in Dolj, for 10 km.

A street has been flooded by the water coming through the  crack from Bistreţ pier,  in Cârna  commune, Dolj county, on Tuesday, the 2^nd of  May 2006. Only  200 inhabitant of 1.500 of Cârna commune, from Dolj county, stayed in their houses, the rest of the population being  evacuated.

Another disaster that took place  in November 2011, more exactly a strong fire started in Cârna commune, burning up about 1.000 hectares of dry vegetation, and forest. A number of 150 sheep disappeared in this fire but the firemen saved more than 1.000 animals from fire.

The Inspectorate for Emergency Situations Dolj has communicated the fact that the firemen have interfered to extinguish many fires affecting the dry vegetation and which started in the county. The most violent fire happened in Cârna locality. Initially the Fire Section  Segarcea interfered with a special vehicle. In the moment when the foremen came, the fires  have already affected about ten hectares  of dry vegetation and they were in danger of entering in the forests  Puturoasa and Cârna because of the strong wind. The firemen frighted against the fires for more than six hours and they have been helped by the volunteer firemen from Cârna but also by many employees of the Forestry Services and Poiana Mare. About 150 hectare of forest vegetation have been burned (the layer of leaves and other  rests of  vegetation covering the soil in the forest), 800 hectares of dry vegetation  and 150 sheep being burned by the fire in the field. The firemen saved about 1.000 sheep, 20 horses and 30 pigs. After the researches which have been done, it has been determined that the fire started from a cigarette randomly thrown.