More fires in Ragusa, in the territory of Chiaramonte, in the area that extends from piano dell’Acqua. Forestry and firefighter teams in action, with the intervention of Canadairs.
No dioxin alarm in Palermo
No dioxin alarm this time after the fire in the Bellolampo landfill last June 18. The data recorded by Arpa Sicilia after sampling both near the plant and in more distant areas gave very low values of dioxin and furans in the air.
If it is dangerous when the level exceeds 300 fg per cubic meter the data remained well below: in one location the level was 23 in a second 44. Many other values were recorded in the fire on 24 July last year. At that time the control units had recorded a concentration of dioxins equal to 939 TE fg/m3.
Night of fires in Palermo
Night of waste fires in Palermo and the province. The suburbs are again invaded by rubbish and last night the firefighters had to intervene in several streets to put out the fires of piles piled near the full and not emptied bins. The fires broke out in via della Conciliazione, in via Filippo Paladini, in via Giuseppe Cammarano, via Luigi Einaudi. Garbage fires also occurred in Villabate via Matteotti and in Bagheria in via Dante.
Continuous fires
An extremely delicate moment: it is now daily news of waste invading the suburbs, of fires in piles of rubbish in the night which put the health of citizens at risk. An emergency, almost, continues. The day before yesterday, kilos and kilos of rubbish were set on fire in the eco-monster on Via Tiro a Segno in Palermo in the illegal property confiscated from the mafia which has been in a state of total abandonment for decades.
After the reports from residents and the nearby Amg headquarters, the firefighters arrived and took several hours to put out the fire in which the piled up waste was burned. The municipal administration had committed to knocking it down and naming the street after Biagio Conte. In April 2024, as announced by the Urban Planning Councilor Maurizio Carta, the sole person responsible for the procedure had been appointed and the choice had fallen on an engineer from Coime. The municipal workers, after the first waste removal interventions by Rap, had carried out safety work by fencing off some areas and closing various accesses and stairways. Then the asbestos remediation had also begun.
The video of the controversy
Sitting, under the shade, chatting, with the van parked, and under a writing: “If you are wondering why Palermo is the dirtiest city in Italy, this is the answer”. A video showing employees of Reset, one of the municipal companies of the Sicilian capital, who were not carrying out, so to speak, their duty during working hours, quickly became viral on TikTok and on social media in general . So viral that the director of Reset, Fabrizio Pandolfo, yesterday already initiated disciplinary measures against the workers, who will have to explain why they were essentially not working.
