It is a measure that is taken in case of imminent danger in a country. The day after a landslide that left one dead and a dozen missing, the Italian government on Sunday declared a state of emergency for the island of Ischia, off Naples.
A first emergency envelope of two million euros was also released at the end of this extraordinary government meeting necessary to proclaim the state of emergency, said the Minister of Civil Protection, Nello Musumeci.
another dozen to go
At the site, more than 200 civil protection and police officers continue to search for a dozen missing persons, while hundreds of volunteers, up to their knees in mud, work to clean the streets of the small town.
“It’s a situation that hurts us, if only because of the people who disappeared under the mountain. Here is an island and although not all of us really know each other, that’s almost all, at least seen,” said Salvatore Lorini, 45. . , a resident of Ischia where he was born.
“The mountain collapsed, there was a devastation of shops, cars, hotels and that had already happened nine years ago. Now I am cleaning my mother-in-law’s workshop, ”she said- she explained.
This neighbor is campaigning for the establishment of a true alert system, similar to the buoys that warn of the arrival of a tsunami, but that allows the population to be warned that the earth is moving.
The state of emergency is often declared on the peninsula, after earthquakes, volcanic eruptions or severe weather conditions because it provides for an accelerated procedure to mobilize funds and resources, including those for civil protection, for emergency interventions or the establishment of reception facilities .
Casamicciola Terme, a winter resort of 8,000 residents on the lush island of Ischia near Capri, suffered an earthquake in 2017 that killed two people. However, it had been completely destroyed by a much more powerful earthquake at the end of the 19th century.
Source: BFM TV
