Tragedy in Refrontolo, witnesses: a miniature Vajont – The Messenger

Tragedy in Refrontolo, witnesses: a miniature Vajont – The Messenger

(Treviso), where a local festival was underway, causing 4 deaths and injuries.

Along the axis of the stream Lierza had gathered a hundred people. In a few moments the storm has engulfed the tent dragging people, furnishings and parked cars. “Like a knife, swirl the water swept away everything – eyewitnesses – including a couple of containers.”

Desperate flight Taken by panic dozens of people, those in the group, who individually have tried to reach safety by identifying possible escape routes, but in the confusion someone is finished in the trap instead of water coming down impetuous, and mud. To avoid a major disaster – tells the people – the presence of mind of some people who did escape the people coming out of the village festival in the upstream areas of the river, while many were stuck trying to escape on board the car, which in valley would inevitably be swallowed up by the river.

wave of more than three meters The water bomb has fallen on the area with a wave height estimated at over 3 meters . According to a first reconstruction of Civil Protection, the intense rain would find a ‘plug’ of material and bales of straw on a bridge upstream of the river Lierza, thus causing the flooding. The force of the water swept away people, furniture, cars, causing landslides and divellendo trees. Termination of the shock wave, the parking near the festival was still submerged in eight feet of water, which barely flowed into the night.

relief Immediately have snapped the activities of the Fire Brigade and Civil Defence who have secured the area, have closed to traffic and brought before bulldozers, to restore viability, and then ambulances, to allow you to carry the wounded, twenty , one of them serious. By mid-morning the sun is illuminating the area and mocking those who are still working, many troupe of radio and television stations as well as the inevitable onlookers, including whole patrols of cycling fans who made the difficult road between the hamlets contiguous to Refrontolo.