Italy in the grip of record heat and fires, especially in the South. In Syracuse yesterday, near the town of Floridia, the thermometer reported 48.8 degrees. The data is reported by the Sias (Sicilian Agrometeorological Information Service): this is the highest temperature ever recorded in Europe. The Syracuse record will have to be confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization. “It is very hot but we have not received any particular alerts for today,” the mayor of Syracuse, Francesco Italia, told Adnkronos. “The temperatures have been high for days and we have activated all the necessary procedures, with Civil Protection volunteers patrolling the area and distributing water to the elderly and children in public places”, adds the mayor. Read also City with red stamp Between today Thursday 12 August and tomorrow Friday 13 August, the cities with a red dot will increase, that is, those at level 3 of alert (the maximum) which “indicates emergency conditions (heat wave) with possible negative effects on the health of healthy and active people. and not only on subgroups at risk such as the elderly, very young children and people with chronic diseases “. Today the hottest urban centers will be Bari, Bologna, Campobasso, Rieti, Rome, Frosinone, Latina, Palermo, Perugia and Trieste. Tomorrow, the day of the peak of heat, they will rise to 15: Bari, Bologna, Bolzano, Brescia, Cagliari, Campobasso, Florence, Frosinone, Latina, Palermo, Perugia, Rieti, Rome, Trieste and Viterbo. hot the fire alarm is triggered in Italy. Calabria and Sicily burned, where other victims were recorded. Yesterday 32 requests for competition were received by the Unified Air Operations Center of the Department, of which 10 from Calabria, 9 from Sicily, 4 from Sardinia, 4 from Basilicata, 2 each from Campania and Lazio, one from Puglia. The most critical situation in the province of Reggio Calabria, where various locations in the Aspromonte have been burning for over a week. A man died in Mammola, in the territory of the municipality of Grotteria, overwhelmed by flames in an attempt to save his property and animals. A few days ago, in the municipality of San Lorenzo, the charred bodies of a man and a woman had been found, who died in a desperate attempt to save their olive grove. On the proposal of President Nino Spirlì, the Regional Council has approved the request to the Government for a declaration of a state of emergency “in relation to the calamitous events resulting from the spread of forest fires that are affecting the territory of Calabria”. “We are losing our history, our identity is going to ashes, our authentic soul is burning in the general silence. More flames, still danger, still incalculable damage, our mountains and our hills continue to burn. Fires active even today in the Municipalities of San Luca, Grotteria , Mammola, San Giovanni di Gerace, Martone, Caulonia, Gioiosa ionica and Cardeto “, wrote the mayor of Reggio Calabria Giuseppe Falcomatà in a post on Facebook. Still red alert for today in Sicily for the risk of fires. The regional civil protection has issued a bulletin with the highest level alert for all the provinces except that of Messina, in orange. Red dot also for the heat waves in the province of Palermo where the perceived temperatures will touch 39 degrees. A young man died yesterday while he wanted to help put out the fire that broke out in the Ponte Barca district, in Paternò, in the province of Catania, but he died crushed by his tractor which overturned while traveling along the provincial road. A vast fire is devastating the territory of Giarratana, in the province of Ragusa. The flames have broken out in the Calaforno district and are rapidly spreading pushed by the hot wind. Some houses have been evacuated. On the spot, teams of the Forestry Corps of the Region, the firemen and the Civil Protection. The mayor of Giarratana Bartolo Giaquinta also activated the volunteers of the Alfa group and asked for the intervention of air vehicles. some holiday homes have been evacuated as a precaution. In action a helicopter and ground teams of firefighters, forestry and civil protection.
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