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Celebrity island in Italy is on fire: fashion tsar Armani saves himself on a yacht

2022-08-18T14:12:43.441Z


Celebrity island in Italy is on fire: fashion tsar Armani saves himself on a yacht Created: 08/18/2022, 16:04 By: Victoria Krumbeck A fire broke out on the Italian island of Pantelleria. Fashion designer Giorgio Armani was among the evacuees. Pantelleria/Munich – A fire broke out on the holiday island of Pantelleria on Wednesday evening. Many people had to be brought to safety from the island.


Celebrity island in Italy is on fire: fashion tsar Armani saves himself on a yacht

Created: 08/18/2022, 16:04

By: Victoria Krumbeck

A fire broke out on the Italian island of Pantelleria.

Fashion designer Giorgio Armani was among the evacuees.

Pantelleria/Munich – A fire broke out on the holiday island of Pantelleria on Wednesday evening.

Many people had to be brought to safety from the island.

The risk of forest fires is extremely high in the south and north of Italy, as shown by Nasa satellite data.

Now it has also hit the small island of Pantelleria.

The fashion designer Giorgio Armani (88) should also be among the evacuated people.

He fled the flames to his yacht.

Giorgio Armani escapes flames on Celebrity Island on his yacht

Italian authorities reported large wildfires on the small island of Pantelleria.

Dozens of people had to be evacuated.

According to media reports, the Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani is said to be among the evacuees.

On Thursday night he had to leave his luxury villa on the east coast and the island.

The island is particularly popular with celebrities.

Together with his guests he saved himself on his yacht.

The fire is said to have broken out late Wednesday evening.

Eyewitnesses posted videos on social media.

It shows blazing flames and thick smoke in the dark, as a video on Twitter showed.

As the dpa reported, two firefighting aircraft and several firefighting units fought the flames on Thursday.

The island - which is just 83 square kilometers in size - lies between Tunisia and Sicily.

Italy and southern Europe are particularly affected by forest fires.

Other emergency services were brought to the holiday island by ship and military helicopter.

Fire on Pantelleria – Giorgio Armani saves himself with guests on a yacht

The fire brigade informed on Thursday morning that there was no evidence of injuries.

According to the Sicilian civil protection, mainly bush areas and some wooden roofs and huts burned.

"The wind and the flames are decreasing, the worst seems to be over," said Pantelleria's mayor, Vincenzo Campo, to the Ansa news agency.

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Fashion designer Giorgio Armani escapes to his yacht after a fire broke out on the island of Pantelleria.

© Luca Bruno/dpa

The flames erupted in at least two locations a few hundred meters apart.

The flames were fanned by the winds, authorities said.

There was no information on the cause of the fire as of Thursday morning.

The reason is still unclear.

The public prosecutor's office took up the investigation.

It cannot be ruled out that arson or negligent behavior was involved.

(vk/dpa)

Source: merkur

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