The mayor of Agropoli, Roberto Mutalipassi, has issued an ordinance to prevent the risk of forest fires in view of the period of maximum danger; the provision is in force until October 15, 2024.
The request to the State Railways and other companies
The Institution therefore orders to Railway management company, to ANAS, to the ASIS water services management company, to the Province and to the Paestum Land Reclamation Consortium, to assist prevention strategies, by cleaning the docks, ditches and slopes, by removing dry grass, plant residues, brambles, necromass, waste and any other flammable material along the infrastructural axes of respective competence (including sheep tracks ) bordering wooded areas or lying close to them, creating suitable protection bands in order to avoid the spread of fires. Road managers will also have to carry out periodic maintenance on tree vegetation by pruning lateral branches and scaffolding, where this tends to close the roadway, in order to allow the transit of firefighting vehicles.
A warning that also concerns private individuals
To the owners of urban-rural interface areas, managers and hosts of campsites, tourist villages, residential centres, hotels and accommodation facilities insistent on urban or rural areas exposed to contact with possible fire fronts, it is mandatory to keep the protection strips efficient and to clean up the area surrounding the settlement, for a radius of at least twenty metres, by cutting of herbaceous and shrubby vegetation, brambles and necromass, and the elimination of all sources of possible ignition. They must be equipped with evacuation plans with the identification of collection points which must be kept constantly free and accessible and with suitable fire defense systems, in compliance with current regulations on safety and the protection of public safety.
Other measures to take
And again i owners, tenants and tenants, in any capacity, of uncultivated, abandoned or fallow land, they must create protective or precessed strips free of vegetation residues, no less than 5 meters wide, along the entire perimeter of their bottom, so as to prevent any fire, crossing the bottom, from spreading to the surrounding and/or neighboring areas . We recall the obligation for owners facing roads bordering wooded areas, or lying close to them, to keep the shoulders and embankments under their jurisdiction clear of vegetation. THE owners, tenants and managers of cereal and fodder cultivation fields, at the end of the combine harvesting or mowing operations, they must create a plowed precesa or protective strip free of any residue of vegetation around the perimeter and inside the cultivated surface, for a continuous and constant width of at least five meters and, in any case, such as to ensure that the fire does not spread to surrounding and/or neighboring areas. We recall the absolute ban on burning agricultural and forestry plant residues in the period of maximum risk for forest fires declared by the Region. Furthermore, we recall the ban on the burning of stubble and weeds, even in uncultivated areas, in force since 1 June to September 20th.
Explosive risk activities
To the owners of activities with high explosive and/or flammability risk (fireworks factories, fuel depots, chemical and plastic product depots/factories, etc.), it is mandatory to communicate to the Municipality the references of its headquarters and peripheral ones as well as the references and contact details of the person responsible for the activity and of safety (with 24-hour availability) and produce a copy of the fire emergency plan also valid for external areas. Along the perimeter of the areas in contact with bushy, tree-lined and grazing areas on which these activities exist, all precautionary measures must be adopted, including the creation of specific protection strips in compliance with the technical rules for fire prevention and state regulations and regional, in order to prevent the ignition and spread of any forest fires. We recall the ban on the installation of furnaces, warehouses or factories of any kind that could trigger fires and explosions, within the woods or less than mt. 100 from them. To the owners, tenants and tenants, to the public and private bodies responsible for the management, maintenance and conservation of the forestsit is mandatory to carry out the restoration and cleaning, including mechanical, of firebreaks, in particular along the border with forest tracks, roads, motorways, railways, arable land, pastures, uncultivated and bushy land.
Violations of the ordinance in question are punished with a pecuniary administrative sanction
from €25.00 to €500.00.
