“Veneto asks for the regionalization of the Fire Brigade. Does differentiated autonomy lead to this? Minister Piantedosi immediately denies it.” This is the comment of the mayor of Ravenna Michele de Pascale on what was proposed by the councilor for Civil Protection and Environment of the Veneto Gianpaolo Bottacin with the recent approval of the Autonomy Bill.
“A year ago – continues the mayor – if there hadn’t been a fire brigade with unique procedures and equipment throughout Italy we would have experienced a real “Caporetto” in Romagna. I want to remember the 40,000 men who arrived from all over Italy between June and August 2023, the over 25,000 rescue interventions, 36,000 vehicles used, over 9000 rescues: impressive numbers, and behind the numbers organization and efficiency that depend on consolidated and homogeneous national procedures throughout Italy. The Ravenna community does not forget: for this reason it has awarded honorary citizenship to the engineer Carlo Dall’Oppio, Head of the National Fire Brigade, and will never stop thanking the firefighters who, together with the other intervention forces and the Civil Protection managed the emergency with professionalism, commitment and self-denial, guaranteeing safety for our communities. I really cannot understand what the advantage would be of dismembering this great excellence that the world envies us to create 20 small regional bodies,” concluded de Pascale.
