Bad weather in Emilia Romagna
.
In
Fontanelice
, in the province of Bologna,
a house collapsed due to a landslide
: one person was found dead
.
And
a man over 80 years old died in the morning in Castel Bolognese
(Ravenna), overwhelmed by the flooded waters of the Senio.
According to the first reports, the man would have gone cycling on a road that had been closed as a precaution and would have drowned.
The carabinieri are trying to reconstruct the dynamics of the facts.
"It is a very difficult situation, a piece of embankment has collapsed and we have evacuated a fraction by preparing the building for reception"
, Luca Della Godenza, mayor of Castel Bolognese, told ANSA.
"We have closed the schools as a precaution - continues the mayor - and there are great inconveniences to travel due to the stop of the trains and the water that has invaded the Via Emilia".
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"We are particularly concerned about the metropolitan area - said the mayor of Bologna, Matteo Lepore -. The amount of rain that has fallen is very high, we must be very careful. Despite the inconveniences we must continue to monitor and work".
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Prime Minister
Giorgia Meloni "is following the evolution of the bad weather
that has hit Emilia Romagna in particular - reports Palazzo Chigi in a note -. Meloni is in constant contact with the authorities, Minister Nello Musumeci, the president of the Emilia Region, called Romagna, Stefano Bonaccini, to whom he showed solidarity and closeness to the affected populations, and the head of civil protection, Fabrizio Curcio".
And just
Curcio
he is traveling to the affected areas to meet the local authorities and take stock of the civil protection activities in progress.
A team of officials from the Civil Protection Department is also leaving to support the regional civil protection system.
The department continues to follow the evolution of the phenomena in continuous contact with the territory.
"I heard the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni on the phone, whom I thank for the closeness she has expressed to Emilia-Romagna and the affected communities - said the president of Emilia-Romagna, Stefano Bonaccini
-
.
Together with the vice president Irene Priolo, we are in constant contact with the Government and the Civil Protection, and we are already working to ask for the declaration of a national state of emergency: we will do everything necessary to guarantee assistance and support to the people involved, for the damages and the consequences of the bad weather that has hit our region, especially Romagna". "We have witnessed a wave of bad weather that has no historical precedent for the rain that fell continuously in 48 hours". "The president of the Republic Sergio Mattarella - Bonaccini said later -, he inquired about the situation and expressed closeness to the affected populations, to all the mayors, volunteers and civil protection ".
At the moment, due to flooding,
people evacuated throughout the province of Ravenna are around 450,
mostly concentrated towards the borders with Imolese.
Sports halls, gyms and other reception facilities have been set up in many centres.
Hundreds evacuated in the Ravenna area
And in the morning, railway traffic was suspended in some areas
: between Faenza and Forlì (Bologna-Rimini line), Russi and Lugo (Bologna-Ravenna line), Russi and Granarolo (Faenza-Ravenna line) and between Lavezzola and Mezzano ( Ferrara-Ravenna).
The suspension, the Fs explained, was made necessary by the raising of the watch level of the Montone, Lamone, Senio and Santerno rivers
due to the heavy and prolonged rains
.
Rfi technicians on site in contact with the Prefecture and Civil Protection.
Traveling trains were stopped at stations.
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In the meantime, the rain has stopped scourging the areas affected by the floods in Emilia-Romagna
.
In fact, it no longer rains in the plain between Bologna and Ravenna where the tributaries of the Reno have broken the banks in several points.
In addition to making the flood flow away, the fact that it has stopped raining also makes the various civil protection operations less complicated.
However, the appeals from the Municipalities remain (such as that of Russi where the Lamone has broken its banks) not to access the river banks for any reason, both for the danger of the water power and so as not to hinder any assistance.
In
Conselice,
the welcome was organized at the Palazzetto dello Sport: "I remember that anyone can go to the Palazzetto dello sport and it is good that they bring a blanket with them", warned the mayor Paola Pula.
Night of intense work, that passed, also for the Forlì-Cesena
firefighters
.
Dozens and dozens of interventions caused by heavy rains, with landslides, mudslides and flooding.
In the municipalities of Dovadola and Modigliana, 12 people had to be evacuated.
The situation in the Tramazzo river basin is particularly delicate, where due to several landslides it was necessary to intervene on numerous roads and on power lines.
Problems also in Predappio Alta due to damage caused by a landslide to the gas pipeline, causing the interruption of the supply.
Anas personnel and vehicles engaged in Emilia Romagna
