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10 December 2019Night spent in emergency facilities set up by civil protection for 370 Mugellans. To the 236 residents of Barberino del Mugello forced to evacuate their homes located in the red zone, one in which the buildings have suffered the greatest damage due to the magnitude 4.5 earthquake recorded at 4.37 yesterday, were added, scared by the seismic swarm, they preferred to sleep in emergency facilities. In total, over 550 beds have been set up between Barberino and Scarperia San Piero a Sieve. The tremors continued throughout the night, less numerous and less intense than on Sunday, so much so that they were felt only by the instruments of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology. This morning in the center of Barberino, in the red zone, home controls have resumed: there are 330 buildings waiting to be verified. To speed up the control operations, 20 fire brigade teams are operational.

"The night just passed helped to calm the minds after the great and understandable fear of last night". The mayor of Barberino del Mugello, Giampiero Mongatti, said after the earthquakes that woke the town between Sunday and Monday. "I want to thank the Civil Protection and all the relief machinery, but also the community that has responded seriously and diligently to this great fear. A community that has clung to each other with solidarity and managed to manage a difficult situation also from an emotional point of view ".


"We are going - the mayor reported - to a day of checks, more and more punctual, to the buildings reported. We are working by managing the evolution of the situation. The eviction order was issued on a first precautionary estimate, now we will proceed with accurate controls of damages ". "For now we are preparing to continue assisting people, more than 200 hosted between the Barberino and Galliano gymnasium, about a hundred more at the Scarperia racetrack," added Mongatti. "They are the inhabitants of the center of Barberino, but also many people who have chosen, independently, to spend the night in a protected place. We have organized ourselves to provide them both lunch and dinner, but we count that tonight the number of people to assist will be diminished ".