"Please prepare yourselves immediately," warned Pascal Porchet, the head of the military and civil protection office for the canton of Graubunden. He told the villagers to take any valuables with them that could not be replaced, as well as whatever they needed for their daily lives.
Arnold von Allem, who has a house in Brienz, told Swiss radio broadcaster SRF. On Saturday morning, the authorities informed residents by text message, email and on the social media platform X of the acute danger.
Ursin Bonifazi, a farmer, voiced his concerns: "We are afraid of the evacuation, and we are afraid of the whole process." The evacuation will prove particularly difficult for those farmers who, like him, have animals.
Geologist Stefan Schneider explained that if there were rainfall or rockfall, the speed of the debris could increase to 80 kilometers per hour or more.
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