After the environmental disaster in Stromboli due to the terrifying fire, the mayor of Lipari Marco Giorgianni will request "a state of natural disaster".
And after a meeting with his lawyers, he intends to have a detailed complaint presented and will also evaluate the request for damages, which are very huge.
In addition to the island reduced to a huge black spot for tens and tens of hectares, also for the damage caused to the houses, to the premises of the Advanced Operations Center and to the equipment used to control the activity of the crater.
On the island there was an inspection by Salvo Cocina, general director of the Civil Protection Department of the Sicilian Region.
He also met the firefighters, foresters, carabinieri and municipal administrators and some problems were examined on the difficulties of accessing the places and of extinguishing and coordination.
ANSA agency
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5 hectares of Mediterranean scrub burnt, houses threatened.
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"An applause - highlighted Cocina - as well as the institutional operators goes to the Harbor Office, to Siremar and, above all, to the inhabitants and civil protection volunteers who defended their island. It will be the competent authorities to ascertain the responsibility of the fire that it destroyed almost half of the vegetation on the island and some buildings and put the safety of the population at risk ".
Federalberghi Aeolian Islands writes to the bodies in charge to ask for investigations and compensation
for the fire that devastated the island of Stromboli between 25 and 26 May.
In a statement sent to the President of the Region, the Mayor of Lipari, the Civil Protection, the Department and the Regional Department of Agriculture, Rural Development and Mediterranean Fisheries, the Prefect of Messina, the Carabinieri and the Fire Brigade, asks that everyone, for the areas of their own competence, take action "to implement every action aimed at ascertaining responsibilities and compensating the community".
The note refers to "the huge material and immaterial damage to the community, the risks taken by the heroic population to tame the fire, despair, discouragement, anger and sadness caused in the inhabitants of Stromboli but also in the rest of the Aeolian archipelago,
