Ancona, 27 June 2024 – The Arpam He has not Traces of asbestos detected in the air after the fire of Thursday night at Baraccolabut they would be dioxins present. This was said yesterday by the councilor responsible for security and civil protection, Giovanni Zinni, on the sidelines of the city council meeting where the deputy mayor himself was ‘interrogated’ by Mirella Giangiacomi (Pd) and Massimo Mandarano (Italia Viva). Inside that company, therefore, there was not only paper and cardboard, but also other substances which, when burned, produced toxic substances.
The regional environmental agencythrough Zinni himself, has made known the document in which the presence of significant traces of asbestos in the DS Smith Recycing area is excluded, despite the fact that it was highlighted and confirmed yesterday that the roof of the warehouse, in asbestos, suffered a partial collapse in addition to a series of fractures. The asbestos survey was done on June 21, Friday (the fire broke out late on Thursday 20), but it is not known at what time of day.
A a detail not to be underestimated, given that in the meantime the use of water and other material by the firefighters to put out the vast fire may have changed everything. Also to be understood is the strength and direction of the wind that night and in the early hours of the following morning.
Survey data they were announced for tomorrow, but perhaps due to political pressure they started circulating yesterday. Informally Zinni communicated both the data on asbestos and the presence of dioxins. The conditional, awaiting certain and official data, remains mandatory, but the councilor was careful to say that the concentrations of dioxins detected in the environment were “quite low”. A statement that obviously limits the impact, but does not erase it.
When it comes to substances eternal, perhaps an in-depth analysis and application of the ‘Red Zone’ not only to the building next to the warehouse that went up in smoke, but to the neighboring neighborhoods would have been necessary. Zinni on the point in the courtroom responded thus: “Together with AST we preferred not to cause alarm by ordering an evacuation of the neighborhood. After all, it was a significant fire, but of modest magnitude compared to the one at the former Tubimar (15 September 2020, ed. ) with respect to which we applied the same requirements. The first data from Arpam, which developed a modeling simulation on the dispersion of particles in relation to the wind that night, on NO2 (nitrogen dioxide, ed.) and fine particles were were comforting.”
