The bad weather gives no respite: yesterday there were many interventions carried out by the firefighters and civil protection throughout the provincial territory and today the alert remains high and red.
The Fire Brigade Command was busy with all the units of permanent personnel in service, as well as three voluntary detachments, in carrying out interventions which mainly concerned rescues to people, drainage, landslides and landslides which caused major problems for the road network. .
The areas most affected were those of Pavullo, Zocca, Prignano, Polinago, Serramazzoni and Marano. Since the beginning of the bad weather, only yesterday morning and Monday afternoon, at least sixty interventions were recorded, which became about 75 yesterday evening. A total of five people stranded in their cars and surprised by the rain were rescued, in addition to three families in flooded homes in Campogalliano. Obviously, the integrated single operations room of Marzaglia remains active and monitoring of the hydraulic node continues. Yesterday, on the embankment, in Ponte Alto, Caterina Bagni, mayor of Soliera, was also present: “We informed the citizens and especially the residents near the embankment so that they move to the upper floors”, she explained. Monitoring continues throughout the day”.
Slowly, yesterday, the situation in the Apennines also gradually improved, the most critical due to landslides, landslides, flooding and even failures of the Prignano bridge, literally swept away by the Rossenna torrent. Due to the collapse, the kennel of Alberto Calbucci, a 27-year-old Beagle breeder, remained isolated. “We are completely isolated – he states – The flood took away hundreds of trees and the bed of the stream widened by twenty metres. The new fence we had just built collapsed. The house is raised, it is out of danger but we only had that bridge to get to the state road and there are no solutions. Surely they will declare the house unusable and tell us to leave but we don’t know anything yet, the mayor told us we have to evacuate but we have so many animals. Where are we going? and waiting for what? A new bridge and a new road are not immediate solutions. I went casually to check the bridge and right at that moment it disappeared, before my eyes , chickens and we can’t leave.” In the afternoon, however, the provincial road 19 reopened in the locality of Poggiobianco, Prignano and the provincial road 4 Fondovalle Panaro, in Pavullo, the provincial road 23 from Volta di Saltino to Talbignano, between Prignano and Polinago and the provincial road 20 downstream of Varana always in Prignano. Due to bad weather, provincial road 26 in Due Querce, Pavullo is still closed due to landslides and provincial road 26 is still one-way, alternating with Guiglia. In Serramazzoni today, in the Lama Serra stretch, the roadways will be cleaned using a suction brush.
As regards the lower part, however, in Cavezzo, the Motta bridge, on the 468, was closed because the water had almost reached the hydrometric level. The flood crossing the San Martino bridge was underway yesterday evening and was in turn closed to traffic but the Bacchello bridge remains open. Monitoring of the embankments in Cortile, San Martino Secchia is active. For today, the Acquerello nursery school in Cortile and the summer center in Cortile will remain closed as a precaution. Furthermore, the closure of the cemeteries of San Martino Secchia and Cortile was ordered.
