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January 01, 2020 A tragedy devastated New Year's Eve in Ascoli Piceno, in the hamlet of Colle San Marco: shortly after midnight a 26 year old died falling into a ravine while trying to put out the flames in the brushwood caused by the launch of fireworks. The young man fell for fifty meters. His friends raised the alarm and 118 firefighters and health workers intervened on the scene, who managed to reach the young man but were unable to revive him because he was already in cardiac arrest.


Moments of fear also in Bari where the firefighters intervened around 1.10 in via Petroni in Bari for the collapse of the attic of a room of the Hotel Excelsior, where the New Year's Eve was underway. The failure caused six people to be injured.


There have been 686 firefighting operations throughout Italy attributable to the New Year celebrations, 4% more than last year, when they were 658. The largest number this year in Emilia Romagna, 107. Follow Lombardy (92), Lazio (80), Campania and Puglia (61), Tuscany (60), Sicily (42), Piedmont (36), Veneto and Trentino Alto Adige (36), Marche (33), Liguria (29), Friuli Venezia Giulia ( 20), Umbria (7), Abruzzo and Basilicata (3), Calabria (2). No intervention in Molise. Great commitment of the firefighters in Catania, where shortly after midnight three fires in homes intervened, fortunately without involving people. The first at 00.05 in Mascalucia involved a two-story house, with the flames extending to the roof of the building. At 00.10 a team intervened in via Giordano Bruno, city center, for a fire that broke out in an apartment on the top floor of a building on four levels. The stake, which affected furniture and furnishings, caused significant material damage. Last surgery at 00.35 in via Mirko, still in the city center.