It took more than an hour to put out the fire that broke out yesterday, late in the morning, in La Ciarulla, in the Serravalle Castle, on the border between San Marino and Italy. The fire, for reasons that are still being ascertained by the San Marino police forces, was set on fire by some brushwood in a wooded area of the area. But very close to a small group of terraced houses, fortunately all uninhabited. When the alarm was raised in La Ciarulla, two teams from the fire-fighting section of the Civil Police intervened with three vehicles.
And together with them, considering the proximity to the state border, also a team of the Rimini Fire Brigade with two vehicles and an off-road vehicle. Civil Police and Fire Brigade were immediately concerned with understanding who lived in those houses. And once it was established that they were uninhabited, the officers managed to ‘rescue’ several cars parked in the garages of the houses.
All this with the support of a patrol from the Gendarmerie and one from the Fortress Guard. It took the officers more than an hour to get the better of the flames, thus preventing the fire from reaching too close to the homes. Only one of the houses was damaged, but only on the outside. While the wooded area of La Ciarulla, just above the clay shooting facility, was engulfed in flames. Now the police are carrying out investigations to try to trace the origin of that fire. And the San Marino agents, at least for the moment, are not ruling out any hypothesis.
