(supersedes previous).
Lombardy Governor Roberto
Maroni on Wednesday said prefabricated houses used during
Milan's Universal Exposition last year will be made available
for mountain village populations in central Italy left homeless
by a 6.2-magnitude earthquake that struck on August 24.
Maroni, who was in the Lazio city of Rieti for a meeting
with new earthquake reconstruction commissioner Vasco Errani and
civil protection chief Fabrizio Curcio, said his region will
"act quickly" after the civil protection defines over the next
few days what is most needed in terms of housing, schools and
other structures for local communities.
Civil protection chief Fabrizio Curcio said after the
meeting that the houses, planned as one-room housing units, were
likely more suitable "as schools or as collective areas",
according to local needs.
The governor has offered 16 prefabricated three-floor houses
used by workers who built the pavilions of Milan's Universal
Exposition, which took place on May1-October 31 last year.
The prefabricated buildings, which are still in the Milan
area of Rho, can accommodate up to 650 people.
Maroni said his region was cooperating with civil protection
personnel to evaluate also to evaluate other forms of
cooperation to provide aid and relief to those affected by the
quake.
The quake in central Italy has so far claimed the lives of
295 people and caused millions in damages in mountain towns in
the Lazio, Marche, and Umbria regions, razing several villages
to the ground.
Over 2,600 people have been left homeless and are living in
camps.
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