Flaminio, collapsing three floors of a building: residents saved by a tenant. Traffic disruption – The Republic

Long moments of fear at night in the river Tiber at the intersection with Piazza Gentile da Fabriano to the collapse of three floors of a historic building, probably because of the ongoing work in several apartments in the building. Around midnight firefighters, alerted by a tenant on the top floor that hearing noises feared there were thieves, had to intervene a few steps from the Teatro Olimpico. Firefighters noticed cracks on the walls and on the facade of the building and evicted the entire building, while on the ground the first debris rained down. Then after three, the collapse of the fifth, sixth and seventh floor: “It could have been a massacre,” said one of the rescuers.

Only the immediate evacuation of the building at number 70 and quickly and a lot of luck reduced to zero on behalf of the victims and wounded, while a large portion remains unsafe structure. “We can not exclude new collapses” say firemen. And they are about ten families now homeless that are arranged between friends, relatives and area hotel. “We were lucky – said, shaken, a tenant – with us there was also a disabled person and we had to take him out. When the firemen were going up for a second check, the palace, which is the ’39, it came down.”

gutted the facade, destroyed cars parked on the Tiber hit by huge pieces of cornice, also collapsed on the platform of the Olympic theater where these days the show was scheduled to Max Giusti and that now closed. “At the time of the collapse did not see anything, there was a big cloud, it looked like the Twin Towers,” says one resident, Andrea Ciacchella.

In support of firefighters, who with six teams are carrying out inspections to verify the origin of the collapse and the stability of the building, is also joined the local police, with the captain Raphael Clemente who wanted to see for himself what was happening. “There is a ‘police investigations, it seems there were any jobs and we need to understand what kind of interaction there was between jobs and collapse,” he explained.
For security reasons, it was immediately closed to traffic the stretch of the Tiber which runs from Piazza Gentile da Fabriano in Ponte Duke D’Aosta, close to the Stadio Olimpico. And the traffic is andat haywire from Prati to Salaria. To limit “the intense traffic that will be created,” the local police called on citizens to take alternative routes: for vehicles coming from the south, that is from the Tiber ships, move as quickly as possible towards the Prati district crossing the Tiber or the other side, to the Fine Arts, Flaminia, Parioli and Auditorium. For the means coming from the North, from the area of ​​Ponte Milvio, an indication of the local police it is to move as quickly as possible on the side of Via di Tor di Quinto / Olympic Stadium.

According to local police “are given the time provided significant accumulations of vehicular traffic around the area Olympic Stadium / Tiber Victory / Viale Angelico / Flaminia, so please limit the use of the car if not necessary. “

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