Around 16 a fire broke out in the refinery Eni Sannazzaro de ‘ Burgondi, one of the largest in Italy. From the refinery is built a column of black smoke – visible to tens of kilometers away. "We have received from Eni – explains the head of Budget of the municipality is David Rebuffi – a fax by Eni, in which it was clarified that the flames had been sedate and the fire had been resolved. Now we are waiting to receive a new communication from the Eni group relatively to the ceased alert".
"The fire was significantly reduced to the confirmation of the Eni’s interest in a note, and finally brought under control". Furthermore, "we have recorded damages to the persons at the plant". Only a worker, in escaping, would have fallen earning a slight injury to a knee. The company specifies that they are active sensors for air quality monitoring and related data be transmitted to the competent authorities". The causes are "under investigation".
The Municipality has made an appeal to the population that they stay home for security. The place came teams of firefighters from across the province to give a hand to the internal teams and the staff of 118 "for any impact the health of the people living near the refinery, and that may possibly have inhaled smoke".
The accident occurred at 15,40 in the area known as the East Yard 2 of the refinery, a part of the plant is of recent construction. According to reports from witnesses, has generated a "fire ball" high tens of meters. The affected area is toward the territory of the Ferrera Erbognone, the most distant from the centre of the village.
The alarm is triggered is of type 2, intended for emergencies only internal. "In any case ” – said the councillor for civil protection, Roberto Fuggini, immediately rushed on the spot – as a precaution, we have closed the streets adjacent to the refinery and warned the population with sms, ads on the site and on the page Facebook and megaphones, calling on all to remain in the house. It is one of the most major accidents that have ever occurred in this plant". Initially, the column of black smoke was directed towards Pieve del Cairo, but then the winds carried it in share. Rebuffi has explained that, "after an extraordinary council have been immediately activated the rules laid down by the emergency plan. We spread the streets with a car a information to all citizens to avoid contact with the black smoke".
Bonelli (Verdi): "Too many accidents, check all of the plants" – "Too many refineries in our Country undergo major accidents that pose with urgency the necessary opening of an inquiry on the whole national territory to verify the application of the Seveso directive, the correct operation of the installations and the integrated environmental authorisations issued". Declares Angelo Bonelli of the Green adds: "the serious accident today at the refinery Eni of Sannazzaro had already occurred twice a few months ago, 2 and July 6, 2016, to such a point that the trade unions had denounced the absence of effective safety measures in every production area of the plant due to a lack of organic". "In Italy, ” continues the leader of the Greens – in the past few years, the occurrence of accidents at the refinery, with severe damage to the environment, Milazzo, Taranto, Friday, and oil spills in the valley of the Scrivia. And' must – ends Bonelli – know the reasons and any failure of these repeated incidents through an investigation on all the refineries at the national level".
