Fifteen other fires broke out in Sardinia in a few hours and still super-work for ground crews and air vehicles to tame the flames.
The most challenging fronts, with the Forestry Corps helicopters in action, in Guspini (after almost two hectares of pastures were burned), in Ovodda (where one hectare of scrub went up in smoke) and in Nuoro, in the Su Cuccuru area .
Here 5 hectares - of olive groves and Mediterranean scrub - were damaged by fire. And, at the end of the extinguishing operations, which also saw two helicopters in action, the Superpuma and a Canadair , the person responsible was identified , who will have to answer for a negligent fire .
"The staff of the Nuoro Forestry Investigation Unit - explains a note from the Forestry Corps - immediately started the investigations that allowed to trace the causes of the event. It was verified that at the point of onset of the fire, the carry out brush-cutting work with the use of a brush cutter that has caught fire ”.
An "accident" that triggered the maxi-stake and triggered the emergency, triggered after a signal from the lookout of Monte Ortobene.
On the spot, the patrols of the Forestry Corps of the Nuoro and Dorgali Station and of the GAUF of the Departmental Inspectorate of Nuoro. The teams of Forestas, Volunteers and the Fire Brigade also intervened.
(Unioneonline / lf)
