11 minutes agoItaly, three dead and 60 thousand fire-related interventions
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(9 years ago)The fires continue to destroy forests in Italy, which have fallen prey to extreme heat and drought, which has caused three deaths in recent days while firefighters report a 76 percent increase in interventions this summer. On Monday evening, firemen announced that they have conducted 1,090 fire interventions [...]
The fires continue to destroy forests in Italy, which have fallen prey to extreme heat and drought, which has caused three deaths in recent days while firefighters report a 76 percent increase in interventions this summer.
On Monday evening, firefighters announced that they have conducted 1,090 forest fire interventions, of which 300 in Sicily and 150 in Latum, the region of Rome.
In Tivoli, 30km northeast of the capital, a fire caused by a spark during the work on a railway destroyed in a few minutes Monday at noon a house where an 68-year-old woman and her 92-year-old mother died.
At the same time, an 84-year-old man died Monday due to burns taken Sunday in the Naples region, following Ates.
Between July 15th and August 5th, Italian firefighters have conducted about 600,000 forest fire interventions, 26,000 more than the same period in 2016, according to statistics published Monday by their services.
