A 16-year-old girl died after being hit by a tree at a scout camp in Corteno Golgi, in Val Camonica, province of Brescia. The young woman was sleeping in a tent, in Palù, at about 1,400 meters above sea level, when she felt overwhelmed. “The alert came just before 5 in the morning,” reads a note from Salvamento Alpino. In the place the Edolo station of the CNSA, the Guardia di Finanza, the civil protection of Corteno Golgi and the fire brigade». The rest of the group, about seventy, was transferred to the gymnasium of the town. It is the second victim of bad weather in Lombardy in less than 24 hours. Yesterday a woman died overwhelmed by a fallen tree in Lissone, in Brianza due to a very strong riot that hit the whole area. Also in the Brescia area, in Val Dorizzo, another scout camp was evacuated by firefighters. Great damage also in the Pavia area, especially in Lomellina, between Vigevano and Mortara.
Palermo, fires slow down relief efforts: an 88-year-old woman dies
If in the North it is the rain that is scary, in the South the situation is serious due to the fires. In Palermo, an 88-year-old woman died because the ambulance that was supposed to rescue her was blocked by the fires that ravage the city’s hills. «We had never seen anything like this in San Martino delle Scale – says a resident – we were surrounded by fire from Bellolampo and Palermo. We couldn’t go anywhere. We spent the night in the square. Those were terrible hours.
“The Apocalypse” in Milan
A violent storm hit Milan, causing passenger traffic to plummet. “The apocalypse”, “The end of the world”, “I have never seen such a thing”, some terrified citizens wrote on Twitter, reporting that the power had gone out in various parts of the city. For firefighters, the situation in the city is “tragic”. The Municipality has decided to close all parks and wooded areas. “Since tonight – explains a note from Palazzo Marino – priority and urgent operations have been launched to clear the streets of the branches and trees that have fallen by the hundreds, to allow the restoration of traffic in the neighborhoods for public transport and private traffic”. Meanwhile, the Lombardy Region will ask the government for a state of emergency.
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Houses flooded, trees uprooted, alarms going off. It is a nightmare night for Milan, startled awake by the whistling of the wind, a prelude to the rain and hail that fall in abundant quantities in a few minutes. The new riot was announced by the weather but the violence with which Milan and other areas of Lombardy were hit frightened the citizens, some of whom took to the streets. Many calls to the fire brigade, the damage count has just begun.
The storm that hit Milan overnight also caused extensive damage to the power grid. This was reported by ATM, the Milanese transport company. Several parts of the city and some warehouses are without power, while fallen trees and debris on the roads block the normal routes of the lines. Tram, trolleybus and bus services experience severe delays while the metro lines operate normally.
How: 200 calls to the Fire Department
From last night 21 until midnight, about two hundred reports reached the Como fire department’s operating room. In three hours, sixty urgent technical assistance interventions were carried out for tree felling, removal of insecure parts and securing of damaged roofs mainly in the municipalities of Turate, Rovellasca and Rovello Porro.
More fallen trees in Trentino
Strong disadvantage also in trentino. Treefalls caused by the wind occurred at sp 108 of the Centa valley, while a landslide affected ss421 of the Molveno and Tenno lakes. There are also several floods due to heavy rains. Firefighters also had to intervene due to the flooding of some watercourses, such as the Dosso river in the Genoa valley. On the other hand, a complex operation to place containment nets at the mouth of the Sarca, where the Riva del Garda Volunteer Firefighters placed nearly 800 meters of barrier to try to contain a possible flooding of the river after the abundant rains.
Veneto “bombed”
The balance of the night of bad weather was very heavy also in Veneto. “The railway lines are now interrupted in the section between Brescia and Padua: the number of people to transport is very high, according to the railways it will not be possible to compensate with bus services for all passengers – explains the governor Luca Zaia -. Veneto was bombed last night and at dawn. It should not be said that these are summer phenomena, to take into account: I have numerous testimonies of pieces of ice the size of apples, weighing more than 150 g, with extreme destructive power. We are facing, due to violence and frequency of bad weather, something out of the ordinary. This was once again a night of passion for our land”, concludes the president of the Veneto Region.
In Friuli hail and wind at one hundred per hour
Another difficult night for the Fire Brigade and Civil Protection also in Friuli Venezia Giulia. Hail of exceptional intensity and size was undoubtedly the main element of these storms with grains that locally had dimensions greater than 5 cm and sometimes even reached 10 cm in diameter. Another significant meteorological element was the wind, which blew with gusts that locally exceeded 100 km/h. During the night more than 900 calls were received to 112, Single number for Fvg emergencies, diverted to the fire brigade, linked to bad weather in the provinces of Pordenone, Udine and Gorizia.
Tuscany, 1,400 lightning strikes in three hours
“With the operating room we follow the disturbance, ready to intervene if necessary”, writes the president of the Tuscany Region, Eugenio Giani on social networks, specifying that at this time there are scattered rains in many areas but only locally of an intense nature. More intense phenomena could soon be registered in the upper part of the Lunigiana. In the last three hours, 1,400 lightning strikes were recorded in Tuscany. In Sestino gusts of 105 km/h, 65 km/h in Castelnuovo Val di Cecina.
