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September 28, 2020 The strong wave of bad weather that is afflicting much of Italy these days has created considerable damage and inconvenience in the Salerno and Avellino areas, in Campania. In Sarno we worked all night to clear the roads of mud and debris after yesterday's landslides and floods caused by bad weather. There are 250 people who, as a precaution, have left their homes, as required by an ordinance of the mayor, in the area of ​​Santa Lucia in via Bracigliano, corso Umberto I and via Nunziante, finding hospitality at the reception center set up in the Baccelli school or from relatives and friends. 

The Municipality has already set up a surveillance service for the evacuated houses yesterday evening, to avoid looting.

At the underpass in Via Acquarossa, two elderly people were stuck in their car and were rescued by a motorist. 

The municipal civil protection machine, coordinated by the mayor Giuseppe Canfora, was activated immediately to give help to all those in need.

With mechanical means, until this morning, the roads have been affected by cleaning of the debris brought downstream by the abundant rains yesterday.

The fires on the hills around Sarno, just over a week ago, did not help, but thanks to the intervention of the municipal technicians, the police, the urban police, the firefighters, the Red Cross, the guards environmental, volunteers have been placed in safe conditions the displaced and the viability. 

"Deep closeness to the families who have left their homes, but it was necessary for their safety", underlines the mayor, thanking "those who are engaged in these difficult hours to help and assist the population".

"Sarno has once again been able to react", highlights Canfora.

It was a night of work for the civil protection and firefighters also in Monteforte Irpino.

It was necessary to clear the streets of mud and debris, in some cases even from the cars that were dragged by the fury of the water and which ended up blocking the alleys of the historic center.

The landslide that detached from Monte San Martino caused tons of land to fall, dragged downstream by the violent storm.

Many houses in the upper part of the town were invaded by mud and the technicians of the Civil Engineers already yesterday evening started the first static checks, concluding that some buildings had to be evacuated.

Ten families were transferred to the first reception center set up in the late evening with cots and blankets sent by the regional civil protection.

In elementary school, mostly elderly people and families with children found shelter.

The bulldozers in the meantime have begun to clear Piazza Umberto I from the mud, the main square of the town where shops and homes have been flooded.

In some places the mud wave has exceeded one meter in height.

Schools for today will be closed in Monteforte Irpino.

The weather alert will remain throughout the day and the operations center is already active in common to coordinate emergency and rescue interventions. 

Another evacuation, in the Salerno area, due to bad weather.

After the 35 families who had to leave their homes in Sarno, the mayor of Castel San Giorgio, Paola Lanzara, signed an ordinance imposing on the residents of Corso Claudio, in the stretch that goes from number 10 to 50 of the Cortedomini hamlet , and those of the first alley of Corso Claudio, to "evacuate temporarily and until further notice the homes and all buildings of common personal, family, work or service use".

The measure was taken due to the flooding that affected local and private buildings.

The firefighters, after the inspection, "highlighted - reads the ordinance - that the current situation involves danger for public and private safety".

In the meantime, the collection and rescue point for the evacuated population has been identified in the first grade secondary school 'Amendola' of scholastic autonomy number 84 of Lanzara.

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, where even here the schools are closed for today and a meeting of the Coc will be held for 12.30, only two interventions in progress at the moment, or two static checks following the bad weather of the past hours .

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i, affected by several episodes of flooding, schools of all levels in the municipal area have been closed.

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meanwhile, the situation is under control and the municipal administration is monitoring the trees.

The schools remain closed for today.

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the mayor Vincenzo Servalli explains that "there are widespread throughout the territory. Tree falls and small landslides prevail in all the hamlets. There are two more serious situations. The wind has blown away a piece of roof of the Palestra di Santa Lucia and the collapse of a stone wall with the consequent landslide on the road in via Nicola Pastore which is still blocked. Damages are also recorded in the civic cemetery ".

Closed schools also

days, Monday 28 and tomorrow, Tuesday 29 September to allow technicians to check if the severe bad weather of the past few hours has caused damage to schools.

Furthermore, again through the signing of a contingent and urgent ordinance, the

mayor Alessandro Chiola has ordered the closure of parks and public gardens for 48 hours.

Also in this case the workers of the Municipality of Montecorvino Pugliano will be busy removing branches and debris. 

The Campania Regional Civil Protection has sent over 100 cots to Sarno (Salerno) and Monteforte Irpino (Avellino).

This was communicated by the Campania department, underlining that the volunteers are at work throughout the Agro Nocerino-Sarnese area where the regional technicians found the breakage of the Sarno banks in the Nocera Inferiore area.

Flooding also occurred in Mercato San Severino.

The orange alert - specifies the Civil Protection - passed to the yellow level at 6 this morning for a further 24 hours.