The earthquake, still in shock. Challenged by the mayor of Norcia: “Ridateci the curtains”. Renzi: “No tent cities in the mountains” – The Republic

the NORCIA - the First night after the earthquake which she spent in the car or in shelters for the affected population by the earthquake in Umbria, Marche and Lazio, the strongest since 1980. “It was a night complicated for the citizens and for the machine service, the conditions are not easy, the road has been damage,” he explained Titti Postiglione of the Italian civil Protection. “Ridateci the curtains” is the request coming from the majority of the inhabitants of Norcia who have chosen to stay in the city while having houses destroyed or unable to return for fear, because inside the red zone. The Region guarantees , however, that already in the next few hours and will be fitted marquees collective, where the community will be able to spend the night. “So no one is forced to stay in the car” stress.

vent. “The tents were not to be removed”, say to Norcia, those who gather for breakfast in the tree in front of the palasport. Words shouted during a meeting with the mayor Nicola Alemanno. “It is no longer ‘only towels’ as a time – says Adolfo, one of the evacuees – but comfortable and heated. Can afford to those who remain here to deal better with the difficulties of these hours”. A situation that the president of the Region Catiuscia Marini has addressed this morning at a meeting in Cascia with the head of the civil protection Fabrizio Curcio and the government commissioner, Vasco Errani. The summit then moved to other centres affected by the earthquake.

Renzi: “No to tent cities in the mountains under the snow”. “The things to do are difficult, but clear. First, put in safety.” Matteo Renzi, from the enews, so the point about the work of reconstruction in the areas affected by the earthquake. “We’ll talk about it even today, in the Council of ministers extraordinary that we have summoned for the 17th, where there will be the 4 presidents of the Region, the commissioner of Winners, and the head of the Civil Protection Curcio,” recalls the chairman of the Board.

“can’t we have the tents for a few months in the mountains, reaffirms Renzi – under the snow. The hotels are there, for everyone. But many of our countrymen do not want to leave those lands, not even for a few weeks. Therefore, we need to better manage this early phase of the emergency”.

Then you must think of the “reconstruction” of the areas affected by the earthquake. “State of the art. With the control of public opinion and of all citizens. Not be wasted even a penny and we have to prove who we are: people who – unlike some of the events of the past – they do public works without waste and without thieves”, said Renzi, who added: “there are No deaths this time. And this news gives us great relief. But the damage to the housing stock, economic, cultural and religious-are impressive. These villages are the Italian identity: we will have to rebuild them all, quickly and well.”

Renzi recalls, finally, as the floor of the House of Italy is “a strategic plan for the future of our children and our grandchildren. Not only the emergency, not only the reconstruction, but – finally – the prevention. Work has already started but will take years, “a couple of generations” as he explained to Renzo Piano illustrating the concepts”.

Catiuscia Marini: “We have to assist more than 5,000 people”. “without prejudice to the voluntary option on the part of citizens to choose, for instant, the accommodation in hotels or other accommodation facilities as they have already done hundreds of people in the Umbria Region, including the gathering of the instances of the citizens themselves, through the civil Protection national and regional levels, is strongly committed to ensure already in the next few hours setting up tents collective where you can spend the next few nights in the conditions, although precarious, yet”. And’ as stated by the president of the Region, Catiuscia Marini, pointing out that “in Umbria, the situation remains very difficult”. “We are still engaged in the utmost emergency,” he explained, to continue to assist the population and to ensure all the minimum needs for those who have had to abandon their homes. Unfortunately now we a re in the presence of numbers that have nothing to do with the earthquake on August 24. Now instead we have to assist more than 5,000 people”. The civil Protection. “it was a night complicated for the citizens and for the machine service, the conditions are not easy, the road has been damage,” he explained Titti Postiglione, of the office emergency of the civil Protection, during a press conference in Rieti.

“In the villages it is very difficult to reach with ordinary means, even only the transport of a tent is difficult: it takes more resources to do that,” said Titti Postiglione. “Definitely the theme of the road sees us more involved in these hours, you should be able to operate in complete safety, and we have seen that the collapse of the boulders is still possible,” he added.

“At this time there is a survey of the technicians for the very specific situation of the Black river, at the height of Visso, on the border between Marche and Umbria: a landslide of considerable size has affected the road and the riverbed, thus creating an obstruction, a dock, and must be controlled, monitored, and managed,” explained Postiglione. A situation, he continued, should be monitored because “we have weather forecasts for the next few days, and this facilitates the operation, but then will come the rain.”

with regard To the displaced people there are “as many as 15 thousand assisted” registered in the reception facilities, but “this number, which is a number that refers to the machine support, and that is already important, I can grow."

“The damage is extremely serious and widespread,” he noted. “If the earthquake of 24 August we had 70 thousand instances for the inspecti ons, now this number will rise”.

displaced. In particular, more than five hundred were accommodated in hotels in the area of the Trasimeno lake, and over four thousand in hotels on the adriatic coast. In addition, there are about three thousand people in Umbria and the other seven in the Marche region that are hosted in the facilities of the first reception set up at the municipal level. Remain, also, one of the beneficiaries as a result of the earthquake of August 24, more than 1100 citizens housed in hotels and accommodation facilities.

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The rescuers. Continues unabated and has made this morning even more intense the task of the rescuers in Norcia. In the city are flowing into the personnel and materials such as blankets, food and chemical toilets. In flight the helicopters of the fire brigade and other police forces. And all the while continue to hear the jolts of earthquake, even intense.

New shocks. In the night, the earth has continued to shake relentlessly. After the first strong earthquake of yesterday morning have been recorded more than 700 aftershocks from the seismic network of the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (Ingv). The most strong, 4.27, of a magnitude of 4.2 to 11 kilometres deep, and only 3 kilometres from Norcia. Several shocks felt clearly by the population and the displaced. “Sleep? Here is a sway, that makes you want to sleep? Also has ice cream tonight,” said the disconsolate, the mayor of Ussita, Marco Rinaldi, who was just 14 other citizens, the more the forces of order and the volunteers to try to rest in the camp of the country, without going to sleep on the coast of Porto Recanati or Porto S. Elpidio as the displaced.

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