The firefighters intervened six times yesterday in the Zen 2 neighborhood in Palermo to put out the garbage fires that broke out last night. The streets are always the same where piles of uncollected rubbish are piled up.
Via Fausto Coppi, via Costante Girardengo, via Agesia di Siragusa, via Pensabene. As happens in these cases, it was a terrible night for residents forced to live in homes invaded by the black smoke produced by the fires.
Fire in apartment in via Perez
A fire broke out in a ground floor apartment in via Francesco Perez last night in Palermo. The firefighters intervened and put out the flames which apparently started from a short circuit which caused smoke between the rooms.
There were two women in the house, one aged 67 and a young woman aged 24. They remained intoxicated and treated by the 118 health workers who arrived together with the firefighters.
Fires in Buonfornello and Campofelice di Roccella
The firefighters and civil protection volunteers intervened to put out two fires that broke out in the Buonfornello area and in Campofelice di Roccella and which caused damage to the vegetation. Volunteers from the Giubbe d’Italia of Cefalù also intervened in the first fire as requested by the regional civil protection department.
The second destroyed a hectare of land near the mouth of the Grande river. Here foresters and firefighters put out the fire. Precisely in Campofelice di Roccella, municipal police officers fined 50 landowners who had not cleared the plots of weeds. Checks are underway to ascertain whether the fire started from one of these lands that came under the scrutiny of the municipal police command.
