The fire that yesterday devastated farms and woodlands, displacing dozens of families, started from a ditch on the former 196 highway at the entrance to Villacidro . Cleanup operations are still underway, having restarted this morning with a helicopter from Villasalto after several fires reignited.
Carlo Puddu, commander of the Municipal Police, saved a 15-month-old baby from a house engulfed in flames . He was with his parents, uncles, and grandparents, who have been running a farm ravaged by the blaze for a long time. "Fire everywhere, we said to ourselves, 'Do or die,'" he said.
A few kilometers away, in Serramanna, the fire affected the western area . State Road 130 was also blocked for two and a half hours, causing moments of fear for hundreds of motorists during the blazes that broke out between Uta, Villaspeciosa, and Decimomannu .
Now is the time to assess the damage, but also to exercise utmost caution. Because there's another day of alert in several areas of the orange island.
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