Italy recorded more than 800 fires this weekend, mainly in the south of the country, said the firefighters of the peninsula on their Twitter account.
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In the last 24 hours, the firefighters have carried out more than 800 interventions: 250 in Sicily, 130 in Puglia and Calabria, 90 in Lazio (the region of Rome, note) and 70 in Campania
", specifies the tweet .
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The work of the teams continues in Catania, Palermo and the Syracuse area
", three Sicilian cities, add the firefighters.
Italy has been affected by a significant heat wave in recent days with temperatures reaching 40 ° C in Bari (Apulia) or 39 ° C in Catania and Palermo (Sicily).
These heat and the lack of rains have led to numerous fires, one of which devastated more than 20,000 hectares of forest, olive groves and crops in the region of Oristano, in the west of the region at the end of last week. Sardinia.
According to Coldiretti, one of the main farmers' unions in Italy, Sicily alone has recorded around 300 forest fires for 60,000 fire starts so far in 2021. “
The latest fire starts confirm that the fires have started. by criminals
”, adds Coldiretti, while acknowledging that“
the heat and the drought
”facilitated the work of the arsonists.
While the south of the peninsula is burning, the north is experiencing severe thunderstorms and falling hailstones.
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The cost of the damage caused everywhere in the countryside of northern Italy by the violent storms and the falling hailstones during this crazy summer amounts to tens of millions of euros,
" said Sunday the Coldiretti.
