FROM SAN VITO AND CORTINA
Bomb water, landslide in Cadore
The dead rise to three, including a 14 year old
The fury of the water on the cars parked in the yard of the chairlift. Flooded homes and fear. Other landslides in Cancia and Auronzo. Minister Galletti in Cadore
SAN VITO DI CADORE (Belluno) First the water, then the landslide with stones and river mud. Overwhelming parked cars and killing three people including, probably, a Polish tourist missing since last night and a 14 year old girl. The Veneto once again hit by extreme weather events. After the whirlwind of 8 July on the Riviera del Brenta, with one death, this time it was a “water bomb”, which broke out between Cortina and San Vito di Cadore, in the Valle del Boite, to cause a number of landslides. The most impressive, triggered dall’esondazione torrent Ru Dry, which did overflow a containment basin, swept three cars in San Vito. Two were empty, the third was a young married couple Poles: she was rescued from mountain rescue to San Vito di Cadore, he was found just before eight in the morning a few dozen meters from the car, on the river bed. Then there was also the discovery of two more bodies, including that of a girl of about 14 who would not – as confirmed by the deputy mayor of San Vito Andrea Flowers – a resident.
The President of the Veneto Luca Zaia in the late afternoon will be in San Vito di Cadore, on the site of the landslide, to monitor the situation and start the first tasks of the law. Zaia will also be present on Thursday morning in the disaster area. “The situation is tragic. A bomb of water transported downstream of the material still at altitude and the result is unfortunately to a financial tragedy, hope has ended with three deaths. “He said. Environment Minister Gian Luca Galletti will start in the afternoon to the Cadore with the head of Civil Protection Fabrizio Curcio. In what has been learned should be there around 18.
On Tuesday evening, three cars were parked in front of a small hut near the tracks of the ski slopes, a few kilometers above the village. The fury of water and mud tore away the cars and has thrown in the river bed, dozens of meters away. The woman, found in a state of hypothermia, she thought that her husband was imprisoned in the car, but the firefighters who inspected the cabin they found it empty. Firefighters are finishing also check other cars that hikers leave parked, sometimes for the night.
The landslide came down as in the past from the slopes of Mount Antelao, invaded the state Alemagna, thus isolating for hours even Cortina d’Ampezzo, and reached a house where there was no one, triggering floods and real rivers of mud that have affected other homes and businesses. Run over a small bridge along the bike path to San Vito. In the area they are working to thirty hours of firefighters and volunteers. But San Vito was not the only one affected by the strong storm. Another landslide fell in the valley in the area of Borca di Cadore, Cancia, where in July 2009 a similar phenomenon caused the death of two people, mother and son, in their hut buried by mud and stones, and a third is It is discharged instead near Auronzo, covering the regional road 48 of the Dolomites. Landslide in Cadore commissioner, four detachments, open roads collapsed dozens thousand cubic meters of mud and rock Ru Secco. The fourth landslide covered the Grava Secca, in the Auronzo, in a stretch known for these phenomena and always kept under control.
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