Fires Sardinia, mayor Santulussurgiu: “The fire has also burned our souls”

“We are fighting. We live overwhelmed by the noise of the helicopters, deaf but reassuring, because here the outbreaks continue and the weather conditions are still worrying, the temperatures are very high. We resist, but the country is in shock, the scenario they saw was worse than any film about the Apocalypse “. There is a lot of bitterness, a thread of tension, but no resignation in the story to the Adnkronos by Diego Loi, mayor of Santulussurgiu, one of the villages most affected by the immense fire that devastated Sardinia in the Montiferru region, a nightmare that does not seems to want to finish. Over 20 thousand hectares of land gone up in smoke, more than 1500 people displaced. “In this experience, in reality there was nothing that was in favor, not even by mistake”, explains the mayor, who takes a while to find the words to describe the mood of the country: ” mood is that of a sense of devastation – he later says – of strong mortification, as if this burning all around us had burned our soul “, he murmurs. “But I feel a lot of closeness from the people, there is a great deployment of forces on the part of the citizens, among the various situations, between farmers, an enormous solidarity – he then says – Also on the part of young people in support of companies, I feel that we have all gathered around this misfortune and this helps everyone to resist “. The damage” is not quantifiable. The real damage is the almost total destruction of almost the entire territory of the entire Montiferru mountain compendium “, says the mayor. “We are still counting the situation, the picture is so vast that it is not clear. What is certain is that it will take years and years to hypothesize a reorganization”. The eyes of the villagers “are turned to the horizon, the ears to the noise of the Canadair, we are on alert”. Sleepless nights for everyone, the mayor on the front line. “I don’t know what shape the bed has, but it’s not important – Diego Lo smiles bitterly – I just wish that moment would come soon when, looking at the sky, we can all relax together with my citizens thinking that the nightmare is over . We will take care of the rest later. ” (by Ilaria Floris)