The red alert in 18 cities of the country
In Italy, the Ministry of Health has declared the red alert in 18 cities throughout the country, these are Ancona, Bologna, Bolzano, Brescia, Florence, Frosinone, Genoa, Latina, Milan, Palermo, Perugia, Rieti, Rome, Turin, Trieste, Verona and Viterbo. To these maximum alerts are added four orange stamps (alert level 2): ​​Campobasso, Naples, Venice, Viterbo. Tomorrow Campobasso will also pass to the red stamp .. “climatic shelters” were set up in Bologna and dehumidifiers were distributed in Ancona to the needy. It is “one of the most intense hot waves of summer”, which moreover is characterized by a particularly long duration, commented on the Fep the expert Antonio Spano, founder of the specialized site Ilmeteo.it. While the firefighters fought forest fires in different regions of Italy, a 77 -year -old woman died on Sunday, suffocated by the smoke of a fire built near her home in Potenza. Yesterday, a 70 -year -old man died overwhelmed by a stream of water and mud in the Alpine city of Bardonecchia, in Piedmont, near the French border.
