“Nearly half a million people to be displaced in 72 hours. Away from the Phlegraean Fields. By train, bus or ship to the ‘twinned’ regions. The citizens of Pozzuoli in Lombardy, those of Bacoli between Umbria and Marche, Monte di Procida between Abruzzo and Molise, in Lazio the residents of the Neapolitan neighborhood of Fuorigrotta”. The newspaper La Repubblica describes the plan envisaged if the most catastrophic, and at the moment least probable, scenario linked to the volcanic risk in the Caldera area were to materialise. However, it does not concern the issue of bradyseism, which is also affecting the area, but for which a mass evacuation plan is not envisaged.
The largest number of displaced people is destined for Lombardy, where the “twinning” provides for the accommodation of approximately 77 thousand residents of Pozzuoli. The definitive plan does not yet exist, but the Region has established an inter-directional group which is currently defining the lines of action in detail. Different solutions are evaluated.
Yesterday afternoon, a meeting of the Rescue Coordination Center took place in the Prefecture of Naples, via video connection with the Department of Civil Protection, the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, with the Civil Protection of the Campania Region and the Municipality of Naples and with the Mayors of Pozzuoli and Bacoli, to organize the exercise activities that will take place in those territories on 25 and 26 June, during which a seismic swarm and an increase in ground deformations will be simulated and the emergency interventions foreseen at the regarding the Bradyseism Emergency Expeditionary Plan in the Phlegraean area.
During the exercise, on the organization of which all the subjects of the civil protection system will continue to work in the coming days, the Rescue Coordination Center, activated in the Prefecture, will be extended to the participation of the Police Forces, the Fire Brigade, the Campania Region, the municipalities involved and all the other subjects involved in the rescue activities, for the continuous monitoring of the event and the unitary management of emergency interventions.
