AVEZZANO – The campaign against forest fires is underway. The Mayor signs the ordinance with the prescriptions and prohibitions to avoid fires.
The Mayor of Avezzano, Giovanni Di Pangraziosigned the ordinance to prevent the forest fires which will come into force from June 15th until October 15th. The ordinance provides for prescriptions and prohibitions to ensure that dangerous lines are avoided, which could then endanger the woods and the safety of people and things. All owners in any capacity of woods, land, meadows, pastures and uncultivated areas, especially if bordering public areas, must take steps to avoid the possible onset and spread of fires.
It is therefore done to them obligation to adopt the following prevention interventions:
a) Perimeterization by plowing for a five meter strip (10 meters if adjacent to railway lines) and clearing of sheaves of wheat, foliage, shrubs and other combustible material on: land on which stubble is found, other herbaceous plant material and/ or easily flammable shrubs that border woods and/or transit routes; land cultivated with cereals after harvest; uncultivated land.
b) Carrying out all stubble burial operations;
c) Clearing of herbaceous and shrubby vegetation (with the exception of species present in the municipal territory and protected by national, community and regional laws) of wooded areas bordering roads and other transit routes, to a depth of at least five metres;
d) Clearing by the bodies concerned of the herbaceous and shrubby vegetation (with the exception of the species present in the municipal territory and protected by national, community and regional laws) present along the road, motorway and railway embankments.
The owners and possessors in any capacity of the land falling within the aforementioned cases will be held responsible for damages that occur due to their negligence or failure to comply with the instructions given.
IT IS ALSO FORBIDDEN: lighting fires, setting off mines, using flame or electric devices to cut metals, using engines, stoves or incinerators that produce sparks or embers, smoking in places with a high fire risk, in the Monte Salviano and Pineta Reserve, or carry out any other operation that could create a fire hazard;
the lighting and launching of fireworks, so-called Chinese lanterns, the setting off of firecrackers, the explosion of firecrackers, rockets and other pyrotechnic devices, unless specially authorized (art. 57 RD n. 773/1931);
parking on meadows and in the woods for drivers of cars equipped with catalytic converters;
in public or private landfills and/or in waste treatment plants present in the area, keep waste susceptible to combustion in the open air; any fires that may arise must be immediately extinguished by the manager of the landfill or waste treatment plant and/or by the owner of the site;
within the limit of 200 meters from the extreme edge of the forest light fires;
throw matches, cigars or lit cigarettes from moving vehicles.
Anyone also has the obligation to comply with the above requirements and to collaborate in reporting and intervention activities.
Anyone who has news of a fire in the countryside or in the woods has the obligation to immediately notify the Municipality Civil Protection Service – COC from Monday to Friday from 8am to 6pm.
You can also contact the local Police Headquarters (switchboard 0863 43141), or the Fire Brigade (115), or the Public Security Police Station (113), or the Carabinieri Headquarters (112 or 1515), or the Civil Protection Abruzzo Region, Operations Room of L’Aquila, (toll-free number 800.861.016).
