Fire in Persano, eco-bales with waste on fire

And fire it broke out in thePersano military areain the municipality of Serre, inside a military complex. On fire, as we learn from the firefighters of Salernothey went about 60 thousand tons of eco-bales (those returning from Tunisia) e waste. The extent of the burned waste is approximately the size of a football field. A team is also operating on site and a tanker from Salerno for a total of four fire brigade teams.

Meanwhile the mayor of the neighbouring municipality of Eboli, Mario Contehas issued an ordinance with which it has to maintain “immediately after the events and until the alarm is over, in order to prevent a possible passage of pollutants, close the doors and windows of homes, commercial, industrial and service activities and in all places where prolonged human presence is expected, in the aforementioned areas“. And then, “to monitor and verify, starting from today and for two days, also pending the relevant investigations by Arpac, the absence of smoke residues on fruit and vegetable products grown in open fields in the agricultural areas falling within the localities of Santa Cecilia, Tavernanova and Foce Sele, before proceeding with the collection, sale and consumption of the same“.

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The operations to extinguish the large fire that broke out in the area of ​​the military complex of Persano, in the municipality of Tight. The flames affected the approximately 60 thousand tons of eco-bales of waste stored for some time on that site. Among these there was also some waste coming from Tunisia and which is the subject of an investigation by the prosecutor’s office of Salerno. From what we understand, the firefighters, who worked all night, are still busy with the extinguishing operations that are expected to be long. The red helmets, in fact, will have to dismantle and extinguish the embers that are smouldering underneath, operations that could cause much more smoke. Yesterday evening, a “kiloliter” tanker arrived on site Caserta and one from Napoli (approximately 14,000 and 20,000 liters) to intensify the extinguishing operations.

The note from Arpac

“Monitoring of dioxins and furans dispersed in the atmosphere has been underway since last night in the Serre area, in the Persano area, carried out with a high-volume air sampler installed in the area affected by the fire that broke out yesterday late afternoon, which involved waste stored in a military site“. Thus in a note theArpac. “In the area Arpac has also installed a sampler for monitoring particulate matter and is evaluating the placement, in the next few hours, of additional instrumentation in the area potentially impacted by the environmental consequences of the event. At the first inspection by the technicians of the Arpac department of Salernowhich occurred yesterday evening at the request of the Fire Department, the fire appeared to be in full swing. At first sight, the smoke spread mainly in the direction of the sea and the fire involved waste from sorting plants that had already been shipped across the border and returned to Italy. This morning, at the time of a new inspection by Arpac technicians, the fire appeared to be still in progress. The results of the investigations will be released as soon as they are available“.