“We were woken up at 6am by creaking noises coming from the villa. The house was unsafe; they were doing renovation work but something definitely went wrong”. The residents of De’ Fogliani Street and only in the evening were they able to return to their homes. “We raised the alarm – Duilio Brancolini (pictured) underlined – because we heard the explosions. The house has been uninhabited for about ten years, it belonged to an old luminary and the family was emptying it these days and renovating it”.
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“We went downstairs in our pyjamas – explained Luca Lanci and his daughter Chiara – we didn’t notice anything actually; they just invited us to go out immediately. Those who live near the villa, however, heard the noises well. It was definitely a nuisance because we would have had other things to do”. The fire inspector, Giorgio Minghelli, underlined how the alarm went off around 11. “They warned us of the collapse of the portion of the house – he underlined – which was being renovated and consolidated. Since the situation was quite serious, we evacuated the adjacent building and the one facing it in case the projection of the fall of the artifact involved these structures. It was probably a subsidence of the ground but we don’t know the causes: there was a company that was carrying out the work and they will verify the causes through the technicians”.
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