Paleparto brucia da quattro giorni, mezzi e uomini insufficienti

Paleparto brucia da quattro giorni, mezzi e uomini insufficienti

27 July 2017

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Italy – Da quattro giorni un vasto incendio sta letteralmente distruggendo monte Paleparto e tutto il suo bosco. Centinaia di ettari in fumo. Segnalato sin dal primo giorno sia ai Vigili del Fuoco che alla Protezione Civile. Secondo quanto dichiaratoci telefonicamente dal responsabile di Calabria Verde presso la Protezione Civile di Cosenza, Vincenzo Garofalo, si sta lavorando giorno e notte senza sosta da due giorni. Quattro gli aerei Canadair attivi sul posto. Insieme a due elicotteri, di cui uno la cosiddetta Nuvola Rossa, che riesce ad avvicinarsi tanto alle fiamme. Cinque le squadre di Calabria Verde impegnate. Una con unautobotte e le altre quattro a piedi in vari punti. In totale sono sedici gli uomini impegnati: quindici di Calabria Verde e uno, il coordinatore delle operazioni, dei Vigili del Fuoco. Stanno lavorando incessantemente. Ma non basta.

NUMERO INSUFFICIENTE DI UOMINI, MA SI CONTA DI SPEGNERLO ENTRO DOMANI

Un numero insufficiente, viste le proporzioni e la difficoltà delle operazioni a causa delle caratteristiche morfologiche del terreno. Stradine interne troppo strette, in zona monte Paleparto. Lacqua che i mezzi aerei prendono dal lago Cecita non fa in tempo neppure ad arrivare a terra, vista la fitta vegetazione degli alberi. Un vero disastro. Una delle montagne più belle della Sila sta andando completamente in fumo. I danno sono incalcolabili. Il fuoco è arrivato nei terreni della Regione Calabria e in terreni privati. Imprenditori del settore del taglio legna completamente in ginocchio. Tutto distrutto. La natura non esiste più. Fauna e flora di monte Paleparto sono letteralmente carbonizzate. Prima che il fuoco arrivi a distruggere altri ettari di bosco, si intervenga con più mezzi e uomini. E lo si faccia entro le prossime ore. Non bisogna attendere un minuto in più!

English version of the news. Note: the news has been translated by Google translator.

The palace burns for four days, insufficient means and men

For four days a vast fire is literally destroying Paleparto mountains and all its woods. Hundreds of hectares in smoke. Reported from the first day to both Firefighters and Civil Protection. According to what Calabria Verde’s official at Cosenza’s Civil Protection, Vincenzo Garofalo has said, is working day and night without stopping for two days. Four Canadair airplanes active on site. Along with two helicopters, one of which is called the “Red Cloud”, which can get close to the flames. Five teams of Calabria Green engaged. One with a trucker and the other four on foot in various places. In total there are sixteen engaged men: fifteen of Calabria Green and one, the Operations Coordinator, the Fire Brigade. They are working incessantly. But that’s not enough.

INSUFFICIENT NUMBER OF MEN, BECAUSE IT SHOULD RELEASE DOMAIN

An insufficient number, given the proportions and the difficulty of the operations due to the morphological characteristics of the ground. Inner stretches too narrow, in the Paleparto mountain area. The water that the airplanes take from Lake Bekita does not even get to the ground on time, given the dense vegetation of the trees. A real disaster. One of the most beautiful mountains in the Silas is going completely in smoke. Damage is incalculable. The fire has arrived in the lands of the Calabria Region and in private lands. Entrepreneurs of the cutting sector completely kneeling. Everything is destroyed. Nature no longer exists. Paleparto’s fauna and flora are literally carbonized. Before the fire comes to destroy other hectares of woods, it is with more means and men. And it will be done within the next few hours. Do not wait a minute longer!

An international team of climate researchers from the US, South Korea and the UK has developed a new wildfire and drought prediction model for southwestern North America. Extending far beyond the current seasonal forecast, this study published in the journal Scientific Reports could benefit the economies with a variety of applications in agriculture, water management and forestry.

Over the past 15 years, California and neighboring regions have experienced heighteneddrought conditions and an increase inwildfire numbers with considerable impacts on human livelihoods, agriculture, and terrestrial ecosystems. This new research shows that in addition to a discernible contribution from natural forcings and human-induced global warming, the large-scale difference between Atlantic and Pacific ocean temperatures plays a fundamental role in causing droughts, and enhancing wildfire risks.

“Our results document that a combination of processes is at work. Through an ensemble modeling approach, we were able to show that without anthropogenic effects, the droughts in the southwestern United States would have been less severe,” says co-author Axel Timmermann, Director of the newly founded IBS Center for Climate Physics, within the Institute for Basics Science (IBS), and Distinguished Professor at Pusan National University in South Korea. “By prescribing the effects of man-made climate change and observed global ocean temperatures, our model can reproduce the observed shifts in weather patterns and wildfire occurrences.”

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-07-atlanticpacific-ocean-temperature-difference-fuels.html#jCpAn international team of climate researchers from the US, South Korea and the UK has developed a new wildfire and drought prediction model for southwestern North America. Extending far beyond the current seasonal forecast, this study published in the journal Scientific Reports could benefit the economies with a variety of applications in agriculture, water management and forestry.

27. July 2017/by GFMCadmin