Damage to the building e an intoxicated person: this is the first assessment of the fire that broke out in an apartment in Taranto, in via Argentina corner via Diego Peluso. It is yet another episode of this type to occur in the city. The rapid intervention of fire fightersarrived on site together with 118 personnel and ai Carabinieriprevented the flames from developing even more violently.
Video by Francesco Manfuso
The episode occurred in very early afternoon today, Friday 14 June. As mentioned, as far as we know, a person was intoxicated by the smoke released following the fire, fortunately in a slight way. He received immediate help from the 118 personnel on site. There were moments of great tension and fear in the very busy areain the heart of Rione Italia.
Precisely in these hours is also the complaint of the CGIL on the difficulties experienced by the Fire Brigade, experienced by the shortage of staffin particular in the Tarantino area.
«Wherethey should be at least 40 more operatives, and another 15 should cover technical roles. Instead, we risk a further impoverishment of almost 20% of the workforce currently in service, while for the umpteenth time we launch a cry of alarm on the eve of summer and the fire season” the words of Gaetano Lacorte, company secretary of the Fire Brigade of the FP Cgil Taranto. There is enough to talk about the eternal dispute of the Fire Brigade of Taranto, who in the Ionian land – but the discussion could be extended to the entire country – live the responsibility of a fundamental role for the safety of the territory, but with the “blank weapons” with few staff and often obsolete equipment.
To this is added, in specific case of Tarantothe anomaly of a territory at high risk of a major accident due to the presence of large industrial settlements in the face of a constant erosion of personnel also following the blockade of the turnover and ever-increasing retirements. Lacorte explains that «while the workforce becomes increasingly smaller, those who are there are forced to exhausting work shifts, even lasting 12 hours, especially in the summer season where the workload, considering the forest fire campaign and the influx of tourists, increases exponentiallywith recalls and overtime returns, most of the time giving up their holidays in order to guarantee assistance to the Ionian citizens”.
