Toxic cloud over Taranto, an intense column of smoke rose from a burning warehouse

Taranto has no peace: in an area near the former Ilva, around 7 am today 12 October a shed used for storing material has taken fireraising aintense column of smoke black visible from many points of the city. For now there have been no injuries, but a lot of damage and above all the exact chemical substances released into the air, potentially toxic, are not yet known.

The Fire Brigade and the Carabinieri intervened on site and the information was immediately sent to the ASL and Arpa Puglia. The Municipality of Taranto, through its social channels, has issued a statement to alert citizens in the surrounding areas of keep the windows closed and of .

The images and videos released are impressive and no leads to understanding the origin of this disaster are currently being ruled out. Fortunately, the 20 workers who were on site when the fire broke out all managed to escape to safety, but we still don’t know what the citizens of Taranto are breathing (still). (the results of the Arpa Puglia surveys are awaited).

Taranto, a human sacrifice zone

The Apulian city has been massacred for years by intolerable levels of pollution. In the documentary investigation ‘Taranto Gioca’ created by Rosy Battaglia with the Reactive Citizens association, the entire citizens’ fight against the emissions of the former Ilva is reported. And she went all the way to the United Nations to talk about this “sacrifice zone” among the most polluted on Earth.

A study at the end of 2023, commissioned by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, demonstrated the presence of dioxins even in the breast milk of women living in Taranto, which confirms the harmful effects of steel pollution

Citizens really don’t deserve all this.

Source: Municipality of Taranto/Facebook