Two days of fires on the Murgia and over 600 hectares of land used as pasture, forest, Mediterranean scrub and uncultivated land between Minervino Murge and Andria destroyed. The fire brigade’s clean-up operations on the land crossed by flames in two separate fires ended only late yesterday evening, which required an important commitment on the part of teams from the provincial command of the BAT but also from Canada from Rome and Lamezia. Spa.
The intervention from the sky by helicopters and Canadair was fundamental yesterday to contain the fire, with a total of almost 60 mixed drops of water and in some cases foam also considering the difficulty in reaching some inaccessible places affected by the flames by land.
For this fire in particular, the extinguishing activity began around 11 yesterday morning and lasted well over 12 hours. On Thursday, however, around 230 hectares were on fire. It is not excluded that the two fires in places very close to each other could be connected in some way but the nature of the flames, whether malicious or not, is still being ascertained. In addition to the firefighters, Arif teams and teams of volunteers from the AIB service were on site.
