A four-month-old baby shaking the finger of his rescuer, on board a helicopter: it is the tender image that restores hope in these days of anguish and fear for theEmilia-Romagnaplagued by yet another devastating flood. The little boy was rescued by the Fire Brigade together with his family, who remained isolated in the Monterenzio area (Bologna), due to a landslide that interrupted the road.
“In the little hand that holds that of the air rescuer who saved him there is all the meaning of our work” recall the firefighters, to whom we owe all our gratitude.
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What sees the newborn and his parents as protagonists is just one of the many stories of rescues carried out by the Fire Brigade and the Civil Protection, engaged in hundreds of interventions in the Emilia and Romagna area. In the Region there are over 3 thousand people evacuated and one victim aged just 20, a young man who was overwhelmed by the sudden fury of a torrent while he was in the car.
Bologna is the city most on its knees due to flooding and landslides, but these are critical times also for several municipalities in Lombardy and Piedmont.
“We need help throughout the metropolitan city of Bologna to have the resources needed to restart as soon as possible, reimburse those who have suffered damage and also to carry out all the necessary interventions on the roads and sewers”: this is the desperate appeal launched by Matteo Lepore, mayor of the capital of Emilia-Romagna.
