Avellino. A fire, most likely of a malicious nature, broke out last night in Montefredane, in a articulated lorry depot of a transport company on Via Provinciale, Arcella fraction.
Dozens of phone calls were received by the operations room of the Command of Firefighters of Avellino, which sent two teams supported by four tankers to the site. Teams from the detachments of Montella and Grottaminarda, and two other teams from the Benevento and Salerno commands.
In the end they are twelve heavy vehicles were involved from the flames of which six loads. The extinguishing operations were long and complex, followed directly on site by the commander Mario Bellizzi. The safety of the entire area is still in progress.
Six of the destroyed trucks were loadedThe fire, which is believed to be of a malicious nature, broke out in the depot of the private transport company Worm Trans. No injuries were reported. Arpac has started environmental monitoring following the cloud of smoke that affected the entire area of the industrial nucleus of Avellino for hours.
Il Mayor of Montefredane, with an ordinance, has ordered the closure of all schools tomorrow, the ban on visiting gardens and outdoor sports facilities and the ban on harvesting agricultural products. Investigations underway by the Carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Avellino.
The Provincial Department ofArpac of Avellino hhas already installed a high-flow sampler for determining the concentration of airborne dioxins and furans. The results of the ongoing activities will be published as soon as they are available.
To complete the information framework resulting from the instrumentation positioned near the fire site, the results provided by the fixed stations of the monitoring network permanently operating in the area may also be used.
The councilor of the Campania Region for Europa Verde, Francesco Emilio Borrelli, states in a note: "The fire on Saturday night in Montefredane is yet another environmental disaster in Campania in just a few weeks. We are asking for in-depth investigations to establish the cause of this fire and, above all, for rapid intervention by Arpac to define the toxic substances released into the air. It is the third fire in a Campania company in a month after the one in the industrial area in mid-September in Carinaro and the massive fire in Airola a few days ago. The situation is worrying, we need to understand what is happening because our lungs are paying the price"
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