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May 3, 2024 Andrea Bassi
Gaia Stagnani, president of the Brescelli civil protection association, lent her help in May 2023. “Along a street, going downhill, you could see the sign of water. The houses were submerged up to the first floor, people threw furniture from the balcony: impressive”
REGGIO EMILIA – A year has passed since the first of the two floods which brought a vast area of the country to its knees Romagna. From the first hours the aid machine was set in motion, arriving also from our territory.
“Along a street, going downhill, you could see the sign of water. The houses had been flooded up to the first floor. People threw furniture from the balcony. It was impressive.” Clean and clear homes, offices, shops and public places. Contribute to the return to normality after the devastation caused by overflowing streams. Gaia Stagnani he is president of the Brescelli civil protection association. A year ago, she too was part of the army of volunteers armed with boots and shovels, equipped with pressure washers, motor pumps and submersibles. “The first impression was that of chaos.”
Gaia’s experience in Romagna lasted about ten days, where she intervened in the Imola area, in the Ravenna area, in Forlì and in particular in Faenza. In both urban and rural areas.
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