The numbers are shocking: 11 fires in 2019, 14 in 2020, 11 in 2021, 10 in 2022 and 7 in 2023. Another fact: in the summer of 2023 alone, 31 hectares of land caught fire.
This is the trend of the fire phenomenon in the municipal area of Siamaggiore , developed by the Forestry Corps at the request of the mayor Davide Dessì. «Siamaggiore is among the first five municipalities in the Province of Oristano to record a high number of fires , with damage to vegetation, pastures, olive groves, crops and productive activities - comments the mayor - This sad and worrying record cannot and must not leave no indifferent citizen."
Precisely for this reason, the Municipal administration decided to discuss and unanimously approve an agenda in the extraordinary session of the Council, to then be shared with the entire community.
But not only. Dessì does not forget the great work to put out the fire : «It is necessary to give applause and credit to the Forestry and Environmental Surveillance Corps, Civil Protection, Forestry Agency, Fire Brigade, law enforcement agencies including the local police as well as to all the volunteers who with professionalism and self-denial they contain the fire damage in the local area and fight to defend land".
With the Council, the administrators wanted to shout once again that the phenomenon exists and must be stopped: «We must work towards an adequate policy of prevention and protection of the territory from fires , in synergy with the Sardinia Region, the Forestry and Environmental Surveillance Corps , the Forestry Agency and launch an information and empowerment campaign among citizens in order to avoid environmental, social and economic disasters, and the loss of an immense heritage of historical and environmental value. I invite citizens to protect vegetation, to monitor, monitor and report any suspicious behavior to the competent authorities at all times. If you spot a fire, immediately call the emergency numbers, i.e. the single European number 112, in the areas where it is active, or 115".
