Fires in Carnia, health recommendations and alert from the Fvg Region

Limit outdoor exposure by keeping doors and windows closed and suspending strenuous physical or sporting activities. The use of ffp2 or ffp3 masks is recommended if it is essential to stay outside, paying particular attention to children, the elderly, pregnant women and subjects with respiratory or cardiovascular diseases.

These are the health recommendations released by the Fvg Region for the fires in Carnia. For the governor of Friuli Venezia Giulia, Massimiliano Fedriga, "the situation is not an emergency but an alert and it is therefore right to adopt greater attention, aimed above all at more fragile categories, for the areas and municipalities involved".

Fedriga took stock after an inspection in Pissebus (the evacuated town, ed.) with the councilor for Health and Civil Protection Riccardo Riccardi and the top of the emergency committee in the town hall of Tolmezzo - also present were the deputy minister for the environment Vania Gava and the councilor for agri-food resources Stefano Zannier - on the fire emergency in Carnia.

From the technical analyzes provided by Arpa, it emerges that the levels of 'pm10' fine particles could exceed the daily limits due to the particular circulation of the winds, which push the fumes towards the But Valley starting from late morning.

The identified area concerns Tolmezzo, Amaro and 15 other municipalities (Cavazzo, Zuglio, Arta Terme, Artegna, Sutrio, Cercivento, Paluzza, Paularo, Villa Santina, Moggio, Tarcento, Treppo Ligosullo, Venzone, Gemona and Osoppo).