Two workers, who were working on Tezze on the Brenta in the Vicenza area they felt bad for the heat. One is in a coma. To limit the damage of the high temperatures, the ordinances to limit the work in the central hours of the day multiply from north to south. Measures were taken in this sense in Lombardy, Piedmont, Veneto and Emilia Romagna. And on Wednesday 2 July, the Minister of Labor, Marina Calderone, will sign the framework protocol for the adoption of the measures to contain working risks, linked to climatic emergencies in the work environments. The event communicates the dicastery, will take place at 5 pm at the headquarters of the Ministry.
Woman dies on the street in Bagheria
There is also a first victim in the Palermo area. A 53 -year -old woman died, after feeling badly on the street in via Aiello in Bagheria. It seems he suffered from heart problems. From Sicily to Lombardy, where in Milan a 66 -year -old Chinese tourist was rescued, after having passed out for the heat on the main terrace of the Duomo and transported to the Polyclinic in yellow code.
They grow by 20% first aid access
Access to the emergency room increases, explains to the Adnkronos Salute Alessandro Riccardi, National President of the Italian Society of Emergency Medicine Urgency, “up to 20% in some realities, but let’s say that on average it is 5-20%”. “Dehydrate people arrive, with syncopes, heat strokes, elderly and fragile for the most part but also professionals who work outdoors – he adds -. The part from Leone makes it the worsening of chronic sick people, for example those who have chronic bronchitis that comes to breathe worst with the heat or heart disease that dismiss”.
The hottest cities
Today there are 17 cities of red sticker. Maximum alert in Ancona, Bologna, Bolzano, Brescia, Florence, Frosinone, Genoa, Latina, Milan, Palermo, Perugia, Rieti, Rome, Turin, Trieste, Verona and Viterbo. Tomorrow you will reach 18 red stamps with the addition of Campobasso. For other cities, however, the bulletin includes nine yellow stamps for today: Bari, Cagliari, Catania, Civitavecchia, Messina, Naples, Pescara, Reggio Calabria and Venice.
The weather forecast
In the next few days the anticyclone will continue to scourge Italy even if Antonio Sanò, founder of the website www.ilmeteo.it indicates a possible date of an alleged collapse of the asphyxiating African bubble. From 4 July onwards there will be a yielding of high pressure starting from the Alps and Northern Italy. Saturday 5 July the maximum temperatures could collapse, under the blows of heavy hailstorms and torrential rains, also 10 ° C in the north.
Measures in Lombardy, Piedmont, Veneto and Emilia Romagna for workers
For the suffocating heat there is a stop to the outdoor works in Lombardy, Piedmont and Emilia Romagna from 12.30 to 16. The measures will be in force until September 15, 2025. They aim to protect the health and safety of the workers exposed to high temperatures. In particular, they concern the building areas, quarries, farms and floroviva. Yesterday, in Emilia Romagna, there was a victim in the Jussi school construction site in San Lazzaro, in the province of Bologna. The 48 -year -old man, owner of a construction company in procurement, around 12 yesterday, died of an illness, while he was working.
The Venetian governor Luca Zaia, on the other hand, issued a measure to protect the health of workers who work outdoors or in non -air -conditioned environments and that are exposed to high temperatures and solar radiation. To the extent, the recommendation to employers to limit or avoid work activities in the hottest hours of the day, to rotate staff, guarantee adequate hydration and health surveillance, as well as adopting suitable clothing and devices.
Blackout and Bergamo
The city of Bergamo was hit today by some blackouts caused by the strong and prolonged heat wave. In the morning the area of Città Alta remained without electricity for about an hour, inconveniences that then spread in the lower city, mainly in the center of the center. The situation is largely resolved with E-Distribuzione teams (Enel Group) that continue the installation of generators. The disservices “are a direct consequence of the exceptional temperatures of these days (so-called heat waves) that have determined contemporary faults and on several traits on different electrical networks exerts in the territories in question. As also ascertained at the technical-scientific level, the high temperatures, even at night, combined with the absence of rainfall, involve an anomalous operation of the network” communicates e-destribution in a note.
