He sets fire to spontaneous vegetation and 2 hectares of land is burned. L’fire it occurred yesterday afternoon – June 25th – a Santa Cesarea where the Carabinieri Forestali and the patrols of the Poggiardo station intervened after the report of a column of smoke in the process of expanding.
The fire
The flames they were burning land, uncultivated and otherwise, and olive groves in the “Lampitedde” district in the countryside of Santa Cesarea Terme. The Foresters managed to trace the person responsible for the fire who was still in the area and who had set fire to the dry spontaneous vegetation close to a dry stone wall and then, due to the wind, the fire had invaded the land behind, with the risk of further propagation.
A 51-year-old was reported by the police for the crime of negligent fire.
Civil protection and fire brigade teams were on site to put out the flames.
The fire alert
Since 15 June, the date of activation of the period of serious danger for forest fires, as decreed by the Puglia Region, the Forestry Carabinieri have intensified and organized patrol services with the aim of preventing and repressing crimes.
Particular attention is paid to the most sensitive areas, such as that of Santa Cesarea Terme, whose extensions of pine forest and Mediterranean scrub have been repeatedly damaged in recent years, most recently last October, when, even after the season was over, the conditions of prolonged drought have favored dangerous fires near the town, with damage to the vegetation and the houses themselves.
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