A morning of apprehension shook the Roman outskirts today, when around 10:00 a large fire broke out in the Colle Spina area, in the municipality of Labico. What was completely destroyed was a production activity dedicated to the cultivation of mushrooms and located in Strada Twentyfourth, characterized by an industrial warehouse of approximately 3,600 square meters.
The flames, presumably starting from the photovoltaic system installed on the roof of the structure, generated a gigantic column of thick black smoke, clearly visible not only from nearby homes but also from motorists passing along the nearby A1 motorway. The proximity of the production complex to the houses immediately fueled the strong concern of the residents of the hamlet, especially when pieces of melted and burnt plastic material, used for packaging, were transported by the wind into the surrounding gardens.
The massive intervention of the firefighters
The rescue machine moved extremely quickly to deal with a situation that was immediately defined as very delicate. The operations room of the Rome fire brigade command sent a massive deployment of forces to the scene coordinated by the provincial shift chief: the 24A and 16A teams intervened, three tankers identified with the acronyms AB10, AB12 and AB34, as well as the TA6 self-protector tank. Fortunately, despite the devastating violence of the fire that incinerated the entire building, no people were involved or injured.
The reclamation of the area and its safety
Once the main front of the flames which had held the entire Labico area in check for hours had been tamed, the firefighters’ operations concentrated on the complex phase of extinguishing the residual fires. The operational staff will now proceed with the meticulous reclamation activities and the subsequent securing of the affected portion of territory, verifying the stability of the structures left dangerously damaged by the extreme heat. Only at the end of the technical surveys will it be possible to accurately estimate the extent of the material damage suffered by the farm and definitively clarify the technical causes that triggered the short circuit on the photovoltaic roof.
Fear also in Trigoria
For the red helmets it was a complicated day in the capital, marked a few hours earlier, around 7.30am, also by another very serious episode in Trigoria, where an explosion in a house in via del Fosso di Radicelli, probably caused by an LPG leak from a cylinder, required the intervention of the 11A team and the AB11 tanker to help an injured person who was rushed to hospital.
