Fire on Vesuvius: 10 hectares of pine forest burned

Almost ten hectares of privately owned pine forest burned on Vesuvius  common side of Torre del Greco.

There are six families temporarily forced to leave their homes since this afternoon while there are three helicopters and a Canadair committed to taming the flames. This is the result of a large fire that has been affecting the upper area of Greek's tower in an area located within the national park of Vesuvio.

To put out the flames, also fueled by the wind, and which had licked several civilian homes, a broad coordination led by the regional operations centre, alerted by the vice-president of the regional council, was decisive. Loredana Raia: ”I was contacted by the president of the Oasi Vesuvio association, Gerardo Borriello – explains – who first reported the fire and, after two regional helicopters had already arrived on site, we requested and obtained the arrival of a third vehicle, an S64, which was later joined by a Canadair sent by the national operations centre and previously engaged in another area of ​​Italy”.

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Firefighters, civil protection and forestry police teams worked on site. The flames are now contained but not extinguished: ”So much so that – adds Gerardo Borriello, President of Vesuvius Oasis, the first land association in Southern Italy formed by the owners of private lands – we asked and obtained to leave two teams of firefighters in the area affected by the fire all night, one in the upper part and another in the lower part, to check that the flames do not extend to areas not hitherto affected”.