Flooding and landslides, families remain isolated

<! – -> FLORENCE – Landslides in Countryside and full service activated on Serchio downstream of
Borgo a Mozzano, still in the province of Lucca. They are the largest
critical issues reported by Unified Protection operating room
regional civil law after the rains that this morning they fell on
Tuscany and which are crossing it, from north-west to inland.

The
 reported landslides concern the territory of Vagli di Sotto, in
slope between the houses and the dam, and the Sommo Colonia area in
municipality of Barga, where the road was closed and one was isolated
 twenty people. Still in the province of Lucca, in the locality of Baveglio,
 the provincial road 55 was closed due to the fall of some plants,
 while the provincial 56, already affected by modest landslides, was
reopened to both directions of travel.

The Serchio river at the Borgo a
Mozzano marked this morning a flow rate of 450 cubic meters per second and per
this the civil engineering has activated the full service on the works of
second category.

THE
more cumulative and temporal were expected in the provinces of Arezzo,
Siena and Grosseto and winds of Libeccio on the Apennines and on the archipelago,
with seas between very wavy and agitated. Tomorrow more phenomena are expected
scattered and attenuated. In Arezzo, a stained glass window collapsed from the fifth floor of a building and ended up on the street. Firefighters have removed a piece of sharp glass remained hanging and at risk of falling. In Casentino, in Badia Prataglia in the municipality of Poppi, a hotel facility was flooded following a water bomb.

From the operations room of the
civil protection also report widespread flooding on the roads of
Sesto Fiorentino e Calenzano as well as in Valdinievole and on the mountain
Pistoia. In the pesciatino one landslide involved the SP 34 of the Val di Forfora, near the former oil mill near Ponte di Sorana

Due to theheavy rain of the last hours that
hit the Pomarance area – about 40 mm a between 12 and 14 -,
we report flooding and inconvenience.

The civil protection teams of the Public Assistance
of the Alta Val di Cecina they are activated by two means
off-road with water pumps to empty basements from the water and
streets. The volunteers intervened at theItis Niccolini,
for flooding the boiler room is
of the gym.

Other interventions were requested by Montecerboli is
from Castelnuovo Val di Cecina, for the emptying of
cellars and basements and for roads invaded by mud and debris. Other volunteers were activated to position bags
of sand where necessary valley.

<! – ->