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Six Hundred People Evacuated in Italy's Sardinia Due to Wildfires
Six Hundred People Evacuated in Italy's Sardinia Due to Wildfires
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Residents of the city of Posada on the east coast of the island, as well as tourists, have been among those evacuated, the report said. Seven airplanes and twelve units of firefighting equipment are involved.
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Residents of the city of Posada on the east coast of the island, as well as tourists vacationing at local hotels and beaches, have been among those evacuated, the report said. Strong winds have contributed to the spread of the wildfires. The island's fire services have closed a 40-kilometer (25-mile) stretch of a highway between the cities of Siniscola and Olbia as a precaution. Seven airplanes are engaged in battling the wildfires dropping seawater on the flames. Twelve units of firefighting equipment are involved in the firefighting operations on the ground, the newspaper reported. The newspaper cited Christian Solinas, the president of Sardinia, as saying that he urged civil defense services to strengthen the firefighting air fleet and send an early warning about the activation of the European Civil Defense Mechanism. The president did not rule out that the fires could have resulted from arson and instructed forestry services to step up measures to find those responsible. Southern regions of Italy, especially the largest and most populous island of Sicily, were hit by wildfires in July. Wildfires spread due to abnormal heat, which was brought to the Apennines from Africa by the anticyclone Charon. Three people have died from the fires and heat in Sicily, and the material damage from the disaster has amounted to at least 260 million euros ($286 million).
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Six Hundred People Evacuated in Italy's Sardinia Due to Wildfires
ROME (Sputnik) - Six hundred people have been evacuated in Italy's second-largest island of Sardinia in the Mediterranean Sea because of wildfires that engulfed the northeastern and southern parts of the island on Sunday, Il Fatto Quotidiano newspaper reported.
Residents of the city of Posada on the east coast of the island, as well as tourists vacationing at local hotels and beaches, have been among those evacuated, the report said.
Strong winds have contributed to the spread of the wildfires. The island's fire services have closed a 40-kilometer (25-mile) stretch of a highway between the cities of Siniscola and Olbia as a precaution. Seven airplanes are engaged in battling the wildfires dropping seawater on the flames. Twelve units of firefighting equipment are involved in the firefighting operations on the ground, the newspaper reported.
The newspaper cited Christian Solinas, the president of Sardinia, as saying that he urged civil defense services to strengthen the firefighting air fleet and send an early warning about the activation of the European Civil Defense Mechanism.
The president did not rule out that the fires could have resulted from arson and instructed forestry services to step up measures to find those responsible.
Southern regions of Italy, especially the largest and most populous island of Sicily, were hit by wildfires in July. Wildfires spread due to abnormal heat, which was brought to the Apennines from Africa by the anticyclone Charon. Three people have died from the fires and heat in Sicily, and the material damage from the disaster has amounted to at least 260 million euros ($286 million).
