A wildfire front spanning approximately two kilometers is active on Mount Vesuvius. During this morning’s security committee meeting, Naples Prefect Michele di Bari provided an update on firefighting operations, thanking the numerous institutions engaged in the “tremendous work.”
Coordination is constant between the Operational Centers (Coc) of four Vesuvius-area municipalities and the Prefecture. Resources currently deployed include ten aircraft (six from the national fleet and four regional), alongside units from the fire service, forestry police, national and regional civil protection, and Sma Campania. The Naples Metropolitan Police also has units on the ground.
Army personnel are assisting local police with traffic control and guarding water storage tanks used by aircraft for refilling before subsequent water drops. Compounding firefighting efforts, adverse weather conditions featuring rising temperatures have prompted a heatwave warning from the Regional Functional Center.
Simultaneously with the Terzigno blaze in Campania, the regional civil protection agency is tackling two other major fires since this morning: one in Mercato San Severino (Salerno province) involving a regional helicopter, and another in Frasso Telesino (Benevento province) using an additional regional aircraft. The region recorded over 50 separate wildfires yesterday alone.
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