MESSINA - "The situation is very serious, critical and difficult" sums up the head of Civil Protection, Guido Bertolaso, just arrived in the prefecture to Messina to coordinate relief efforts after last night's violent storm that struck Sicily Northeast. In the afternoon it started raining again: "It is likely new landslides," said Bertolaso. Bertolaso: "Critical situation". "The situation is complicated to deal with localized but because there are two narrow valleys where helicopters can not land and it is difficult to reach affected areas," said Bertolaso, who Giampilieri helicopter overfly Upper Brig ladder, where there were the more severe landslides. And the death toll is expected to worsen. " The drama of Gimpilieri. In particular Giampilieri at this time we see pictures of spooky landscape, with people desperately searching for his family, while hundreds of rescue workers digging in the mud in search for missing people. "A Giampilieri is hell," says an operator of civil protection. "It seems Sarno. E 'collapsed a ridge of a hill above the houses. We are digging under a sea of \u200b\u200bmud to try to remove other bodies." I helped. "The situation is dramatic in all of Messina. You dig with your hands without pause and without ever stopping the debris and mud to search for the missing with the help of dogs," says the head of the Security Regional Civil Salvatore Cocina. There are several hundred men in the field of civil protection, police, 118 firefighters and volunteers were mobilized teams of Pisa and specialized in the search for the missing: "There is a maximum mobilization and maximum effort by the whole region and beyond, "said Cocina.
OAS_RICH ('Middle');
The appeal of the mayor. "We are experiencing a critical situation, the machine is in action relief even though it is difficult to reach areas hit by disaster. Many areas are isolated and teams can reach them on foot," says the mayor of Messina, Giuseppe Buzzanca before to assemble at the Crisis Unit where he came Bertolaso. Buzzanca appealed "to doctors, nurses and volunteers close to the disaster area to help people who need and we can not yet reach."
OAS_RICH ('Middle');
The appeal of the mayor. "We are experiencing a critical situation, the machine is in action relief even though it is difficult to reach areas hit by disaster. Many areas are isolated and teams can reach them on foot," says the mayor of Messina, Giuseppe Buzzanca before to assemble at the Crisis Unit where he came Bertolaso. Buzzanca appealed "to doctors, nurses and volunteers close to the disaster area to help people who need and we can not yet reach."
La Repubblica on line
02/10
0 comments:
Post a Comment