Four days ahead of the expected flood peak, Wroclaw is in a strange state that can best be described as a mixture of panic, hope, general agitation and — for the moment at least — curiosity.

With heavy flooding impacting a large part of Central Europe, firefighters and soldiers in Budapest and Poland's Wroclaw have worked to reinforce river embankments.

The awful memories of the 100-year flood that struck the city in 1997, and the major flood of 2010, are still all too vivid. On Sunday evening, Wroclaw Mayor Jacek Sutryk issued the highest flood ...

This handout photo provided by the state company Polish Waters shows the Oder River flood waters channelled into and contained by the newly-built Lower Raciborz Reservoir that has spared the ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Soldiers dropped sandbags from military helicopters to reinforce river embankments and evacuated residents as the worst flooding in years spread Tuesday to a broad swath of ...

Volunteers and emergency workers raced to secure river banks in Poland's historic city of Wroclaw on Tuesday, as nearby municipalities advised residents to evacuate and authorities across central ...

Poland's Wroclaw looks to have withstood flood wave for now; EU's von der Leyen pledges billions of euros in support; Central Europe floods the worst in at least two decades ...

Other places are now bracing for the flood waves to hit them, including two central European gems: Budapest, the Hungarian capital on the Danube River, and Wroclaw, a city in southwestern Poland ...

Mindful of the 1997 disaster, residents of Opole and Wroclaw watched with apprehension as the river was cresting to the brims — but never spilled into the streets or houses.