The Centrosud of Italy is burning, the measure is shown by the more than 1200 interventions of the firefighters in the last 24 hours, a very high number that prompted the head of the Civil Protection Fabrizio Curcio to speak of yesterday as "a dramatic day".
Sicily, Puglia, Marche, Basilicata, Abruzzo and Molise are the most affected regions towards which aid has been directed from Trentino, Tuscany, Veneto, Lazio, Friuli, Emilia Romagna and Campania.
In Abruzzo, where there were 89 interventions, the fire that devastated the D'Annunzio Reserve was not enough - the photo of which from above went viral because the green was tinged with black - and Pescara Sud yesterday, with tourists evacuated and intoxicated and establishments destroyed by flames. The wind has re-fueled outbreaks kept under control last night in Ortona, San Donato, in the pine forest of Rocca San Giovanni where a helicopter is also arriving to secure an Eni fuel depot that is not far away. Fire also in Fossacesia Marina, always on the SS 16 and the connection of the Val di Sangro highway and the parallel Pedemontana provincial road, already widely hit yesterday with the risk of fires even in some industrial warehouses.The President of the Region Marco Marsilio is preparing the papers to ask the government for a state of natural disaster.
It is no better in the lower Molise where the firefighters worked all night on the outbreaks that broke out in Campomarino Lido and Guglionesi (Campobasso). The fires continued and extinguishing operations are still underway in several points of the coast and also in the territory of San Giacomo degli Schiavoni (Campobasso). Overall, about a thousand people were evacuated, who returned late yesterday evening. Governor Donato De Toma has asked the government for a state of emergency. Sicily is also burning: at the moment the aircraft are engaged in Aidone San Bartolo, in the province of Enna, in Randazzo, in the province of Catania.The president of the Nello Musumeci Region spoke of the need to relaunch the Forestry Corps and to equip themselves with technological tools on the prevention front during a summit with the Civil Protection also served to examine the safety condition of the bathing establishments on the island and the possible adoption of measures.
In Puglia the situation remains difficult in Gravina di Puglia (BA) and Sant'Agata di Puglia (FG): 21 interventions are underway throughout the region, 200 those carried out in the last 12 hours. Checks are underway by firefighters and ARPA technicians after a fire that broke out yesterday afternoon in the warehouse of the Forte Srl plastics factory in Altamura (Bari), whose thick black smoke has invaded the town.
"Due to the toxic cloud produced by the fire - explains the mayor Rosa Melodia - I invited the population to keep the windows closed and not to leave the house except in case of extreme necessity to
avoid exposure to fumes while awaiting quality analyzes. of the air ".
In the Marche and Basilicata the situation is improving, all the fires are being reclaimed. In Sicily 90 interventions in progress: 124 teams at work with 225 vehicles, 300 interventions in the last 12 hours. On the transport front, that was a night of waiting for many passengers departing from Bologna Central Station. For the fires along the Adriatic line yesterday from Ancona to Bari, many southbound trains have accumulated delays and some have been suppressed.