Water bomb on Campania, 200 people already evacuated in Sarno

Citizens residing in the area affected by the order (via Pietro Nocera, vicolo Orefice, via Mortaro and adjacent alleys, vicolo San Martino, vicolo Tre Corone) have already left their homes: a part went to the premises of the Baccelli institute in via Matteotti where a reception center was set up, while another part was hosted by family or friends. The provision will remain in force for the entire duration of the weather alert: the latest notice issued by the regional Civil Protection, in fact, has signaled an orange criticality and the worsening of the meteorological conditions with strong thunderstorms showers starting from 12 today and for the next twenty-four hours. «I am close to my fellow citizens, children, the elderly, the disabled. I am close to you first as a man and then as mayor ", the words that the first citizen of Sarno, Giuseppe Canfora has entrusted to his Facebook profile.

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«Our history has taught us not to underestimate certain situations, to start all the precautionary measures of the case. Unfortunately, the September fire made our territory even more fragile. A criminal act, ignoble, that I will not stop condemning in every possible location, because against our city that has paid for the lives of 137 people with the environment ", said the mayor, recalling both the tragic flood and in May 1998 hit the city of the Agro Nocerino Sarnese both what happened last September 20 when the Saretto hill was devastated by a fire – caused by a group of kids – that destroyed more than twenty hectares.

TO Siano Mayor Giorgio Marchese as a precaution, he ordered the evacuation of two healthcare facilities in the city. The regional operations room has in fact communicated the overcoming of the pluviometric level by passing to the operational phase of alarm for class VI (rapid mudslides) which provides for the evacuation from the red zone according to the municipal civil protection plan. This morning, therefore, the transfer of the 63 guests who are in care in the structures of Via Santa Maria Delle Grazie has been arranged. One group was hosted at the reception center in Via Botta while another, with the help of ambulances, was transferred to a specialized center in Sarno. The first citizen ordered the closure of schools also for Wednesday, while the municipal operations center is coordinating all the necessary interventions in the area.

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