UA volunteer firefighter died in San Martino in Badia, in the province of Bolzano, hit by a tree that fell due to strong winds. The Civil Protection Department announced this. The death toll from bad weather yesterday thus rises to seven. The Military Engineers of Trento have been mobilized to provide support to the Veneto region hit by bad weather and will begin operating tomorrow in the Belluno area, which has been severely hit by rain and wind in the last 48 hours. At the same time, Civil Protection columns from Lombardy, Marche, Piedmont and Emilia-Romagna will be activated. This is the outcome of the video conference that the Veneto Crisis Unit had this evening with the National Department of Civil Protection and the other Italian regions. Requests have come from the Belluno area for teams with chainsaws, spider trucks, mini wheel loaders, light towers, traditional shovels, water pumps and mud pumps, to clear the roads as quickly as possible from trees that fell due to the wind and mud. As for watercourses, the greatest concern at the moment is the Piave which now has a flow rate of between 2.200 and 2.500 cubic metres per second: the risk of flooding remains real, monitoring is ongoing in the centres of San Dona', Musile, Eraclea, San Biagio di Callalta, Ponte di Piave, Jesolo, Maserada, Cimadolmo. For the Adige, the agreement with Trentino has allowed the opening of the drainage tunnel towards Garda.
Article published on 30 October 2018 - 06:59
