The Italian fire brigade said
Wednesday it had made over 4,000 interventions for bad weather
in the last three days, just under 2,000 for southern wildfires
and just over 2,000 for northern storms, which together have
killed at least seven people this week.
"These have been overworked days for the fire teams, busy with
forest fires in the South and bad weather in the North," it
said.
Over the last three days (figure updated at 9 a.m. today) they
have carried out 1,938 interventions against forest fires: 710
in Sicily, 407 in Calabria, 281 in Sardinia and 540 in Puglia.
Six thousand personnel and almost 1,500 vehicles were mobilised,
including 14 Canadairs and 2 Erickson S64 helicopters.
For the bad weather in Lombardy, there were 2,077 interventions
and some 2,900 personnel and 500 vehicles were deployed.
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