September 24, 2024 | 08.55
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Bad weather is hitting Tuscany. I am The search for a 5-month-old baby and his grandmother has been underway since last night missing due to the flooding of the Sterza torrent in Montecatini Val di Cecina (Pisa). The family had taken refuge on the roof of the house due to the rising water level. The father, mother and grandfather, foreign tourists, were saved on the roof.
The firefighters are busy with operations with divers, river rescuers, dog handlers, drone operators and ordinary teams. Meanwhile, rescue operations continue in the Pisa area for the damage caused by yesterday’s bad weather.
“221 millimeters of rain in a few hours, but above all 76 millimeters in thirty minutes. Never in time has something similar been recorded in our territory. A fury of water and mud”is the story told on social media Mayor of Castagneto Carducci Sandra Scarpellini.
“We have completed – continues the mayor – the many emergency interventions, thanks to the tireless work of all those who have provided their rescue work, to close the roads, save and evacuate people and animals, free from the water. Thank you so much”. “In a few hours, with the light of the sun, we will count the damage. It will be heavy, but no life has been lost. This – concludes Scarpellini – is what matters most.
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Already on Monday there were several interventions by the fire brigade in Pisa and Livorno due to heavy rains. Rescued motorists in difficulty and for flooding. “More than 219 mm of rain fell in the last 6 hours in San Vincenzo, 215 mm in Castagneto Carducci, more than the average in one of the rainiest months of the year. The storm line extends from the central coast to the Chianti hills, over 5500 lightning strikes in the last 6 hours. The rivers in the area are rising due to the intense disturbance that is moving towards Siena over the next hour”, were the words on Facebook of the governor of Tuscany, Eugenio Giani.
For the citizens of San Vincenzo, the appeal was made not to leave their homes.
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