MILAN – More than 28,000 interventions (28,669, equal to 80 per day) with more than 40,000 teams. These are the numbers of the Fire Brigade in Milan and its province in the past year. The average arrival time on site for rescue activities was 17 minutes. The budget was presented yesterday, Wednesday 12 June, in the provincial headquarters of Milan in via Messina, during the visit of the president of the Lombardy Region Attilio Fontana (in the picture).
Micele: «Extreme events now more frequent»
Fires in homes averaged 2.5 per day; the number increases in the most populated municipalities e where the presence of older segments of the population is greater, particularly over the age of 60. For the exceptional wave of bad weather that hit the capital and the province in July 2023, 1,200 rescue interventions were carried out, with the use of one thousand men and 35 vehicles. For the flood of May this year, there were more than 300 interventions.
For the provincial commander of the Milan Fire Brigade, Nicola Micele«bad weather has been plaguing this area for a long time and this type of intervention constitutes an important part of our activity. Interventions for bad weather damage have grown by 11% compared to previous years. These are much more frequent events, they happened with equal intensity even before but now they are much closer together.”
milan fire brigade intervention budget – MALPENSA24
