Work is still underway by the Metropolitan City of Genoa to reopen Via Roma
to Pieve Ligure
to traffic , the road where a landslide grazed a school bus yesterday afternoon.
At the moment, a thousand residents in the upper part of the town remain isolated
, but the work is almost completed and the reopening is expected in mid-afternoon.
This was communicated by the Metropolitan City of Genoa, highlighting that "the works continued throughout the night without interruptions with the primary objective of being able to free a lane".
The Municipality of Pieve Ligure today decided to close the schools.
Some people were evacuated and found independent accommodation.
Connections with the upper part of the town are guaranteed by a municipal vehicle.
More landslides have occurred in the province of Lucca
due to the bad weather affecting Tuscany.
One in particular in Versilia, in the municipality of Massarosa, in via Pietra a Padule,
involved a car: the two people on board, the firefighters explain, were stuck inside
but were not injured.
The landslide completely blocked the road: traffic was restored around 5am. Due to another landslide, in Galligano, in Garfagnana, three families were left isolated.
Also in the Massarosa area, the firefighters intervened due to another large landslide, along Via Sarzanese Sud, with a completely blocked roadway.
Also on the post were the councillor, the civil protection of the Municipality, the Carabinieri of Viareggio and Anas: traffic was restored around 7.30.
Other landslides, the firefighters report, occurred on Monte Quiesa on the Bozzano side, in Pedona and in Levigliani.
Interventions still need to be carried out for trees that have fallen on the road, as explained by the police officers involved last night, again in the province of Lucca, also for a car which went off the road in Via di Colognora in Capannori and overturned in a field: one person was was injured and stuck inside.
The police were also on site as well as the health workers.
A landslide fell on the Cisa state road between Liguria and Tuscany in the Bettola area, between the municipal areas of Santo Stefano Magra and Aulla, where you travel in an alternating one-way direction.
Following the wave of bad weather which led the regional agency for the protection of the Ligurian environment to issue the yellow weather alert, traffic along the provincial road 37 Pontremoli-Zeri-Sesta Godano, in the Lunigiana municipality, has been interrupted since yesterday evening of Zeri, which connects Lunigiana with the Alta Val di Vara.
On Monday evening, provincial road 13 in Montedivalli, in the municipality of Podenzana, also between Lunigiana and Val di Vara, was also closed for investigations.
Debris reported on the hilly roads of the city of La Spezia, especially those leading to Campiglia and Pitelli.
In addition to the rain, strong winds also create disruption on the coast.
Other landslides were reported in the municipalities of La Spezia (Campiglia), Carasco (S. Pietro di Sturla), Genova Mele and Santo Stefano di Magra (via Cisa Nord).
The Turchino state road near Gnocchetto is still closed, Anas announces that the reopening, with alternating one-way traffic, is scheduled for tomorrow.
The yellow warning for rain continues until 2pm today in the small basins and until 6pm in the large and medium basins of the Ligurian East.
A yellow alert has been issued for the risk of avalanches in the Ligurian Alps near Imperia.
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