The flood toll rises to eight victims and four missing that hit the Marches in the night. This is what the prefecture of Ancona communicated to the operations room of the Civil Protection Department. At least 180 firefighters at work in the area of the storm that hit the region: dozens of people who took refuge on the roofs of houses and trees were rescued during the night, explains the fire brigade. More than one hundred and fifty interventions that have been carried out
“It is an apocalyptic situation, something that in many years I have never seen “, said Carlo Manfredi, mayor of Castellone di Suasa, center in the province of Ancona.” Plants and trees transported like twigs. Unfortunately we are still looking for the 8 year old. Fortunately, last night we found the mother still alive. She was in the car then she saw this stream of water coming and she went down with the baby in her arms but then they were dragged away “, he added. The victims are in Ostra, Trecastelli and Barbara, all centers of the ‘Ancona
Bad weather in the Marche, in Senigallia the elderly saved with rafting boats
In the morning the firefighters recovered in Bettolelle, a fraction of the municipality of Senigallia, the body of a man who has been run over by water while he was in his car. Except, however, another one, whom the firefighters rescued from a tree. There is therefore also a child among the four missing. The little boy was with his mother in the car who was blocked by the water. According to what was reconstructed at the time by the rescuers, the woman was able to leave the car with the child in her arms but she would then be overwhelmed again. The firefighters rescued and rescued her in the night but at the time of the baby there is no trace of her. The wave of bad weather that hit the Marche “it was not expected at these levels, we had no alarm levels. And the flooding of the Misa, in particular, was sudden and sudden “, explains the regional councilor for civil protection Stefano Aguzzi. In some places,” there was no time to intervene, there are people who may have been in the street or they went out not realizing the danger “. The head of the Civil Protection Fabrizio Curcio left for the Marches after the water bomb.” Our closeness and solidarity with the people affected by bad weather in the Marche. Italian Red Cross both at local and national level is operative in the rescue and assistance “. Thus the President of the CRI, Francesco Rocca
Source: Ansa
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