Fires in Abruzzo: rescue workers evacuated from Colle delle Vacche, flames threaten pyrotechnics company and riding school

The fire situation in Abruzzo continues to be a concern, particularly on Mount Morrone.

Having made the area around the municipality of Roccacasale safe, attention now shifts to Colle delle Vacche, where the rescuers had to rescue 11 rescuers, 6 soldiers from the ninth Alpine regiment of L'Aquila, 3 civil protection volunteers and 2 firefighters, who had been stuck with their vehicles in two meter high flames, with a helicopter. A Civil Protection helicopter recovered them and transported them to the Roccacasale sports field.

The director of the fire extinguishing stations, a fire brigade manager, would have decided on the evacuation. The vehicles, according to what we learned have a total value of around 2 million euros, were not rescued. Still on the same side, there is concern because the flames are getting dangerously close to a pyrotechnics company and a riding school in Bagnaturo, a hamlet in the municipality of Pratola Peligna.

In other hamlets, especially in Bagnaturo itself, the alert was also triggered due to soot. A family unit made up of two people decided of their own free will to move away from home. The mayor of Pratola Peligna, Antonella Di Nino, carried out an inspection to ascertain the situation.