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04 August 2021 One hundred and twenty people were evacuated from a campsite in Dervio, a center of the province of Lecco overlooking Lake Como, due to the danger caused by the flooding of the Varrone stream and the mass of water accumulated in the reservoir of the Pagnona dam.

The Municipality of Dervio invited the inhabitants to observe the utmost caution and to move the cars from the garage boxes.

The state of the reservoir and the stream are constantly monitored. Two years ago a similar situation in the same area caused extensive damage.

The provincial road 62 has been closed for transit until a later date, in the province of Lecco, due to a large landslide of mud, rocks and debris, which unloaded on the roadway today between Taceno (Lecco), in Valsassina and the locality of Portone Bellano, a town that climbs upstream from the Lecco branch of Lake Como.

No vehicles or people were involved in the landslide detachment. But the umpteenth wave of bad weather rages throughout the territory, with heavy rains, wind, thunderstorms and a sharp drop in temperatures, to the point that it has not even been possible to remove the debris for now. The provincial road 62, winding and steeply sloping, connects the Lecco coast of Lake Como to Valsassina. 

The Como firefighters carried out about fifty interventions starting at 4 pm, when severe storms hit the Como area. About forty firefighters were employed especially in the southern area of ​​the province for flooding of boxes, cellars and roads, also following the flooding of two streams at Villa Guardia.

The southern Como area, Fino Mornasco, Appiano Gentile and Bulgarograsso were particularly affected. Some people trapped in cars in underpasses or hollows of the roadway were helped out by firefighters. There are no injuries or evacuees. The areas already heavily affected by the landslides of the past weeks were also monitored, where no problems are currently reported.