Samuele Durigon, 44, excavator from Morgano, will never forget what happened to him, his wife and two children the other evening around 10 pm: it is as if his house had been simultaneously hit by an earthquake and a fire, while outside the storm raged
MORGANO. «A huge fright, the bang was terrible, I was afraid for my children. One thing I do not wish on anyone is as if a bomb exploded in your house. Fire everywhere, smoke, his wife and children clinging to tears “
Samuele Durigon, 44, excavator from Morgano, will never forget what happened to him, his wife and two children the other evening around 10 pm: it is as if his house had been simultaneously hit by an earthquake and a fire, while outside the storm was raging with a strong wind that hit half the province.
They found themselves unharmed, in shock. But alive, survivors of the 22,000-volt discharge that hit their home.
It was one of the three cables of the nearby power line, cut from a poplar uprooted by the wind, that centered the fence of Durigon’s home, creating the perfect voltaic arch over his house. As if it were the mad whip in the hands of a giant.
“It’s all gone”, he keeps repeating, “the counters and the picture.” They are all unharmed, but the shock was very strong. “The house is still unusable, I no longer have electricity, water and gas, the damage is enormous, my wife and children have slept outside” The roar shook the whole area – in addition to via Ponti Settimo they were also hit by the subsequent blackout. the nearby via Morer and Settimo, and the alley Ponti Settimo: over 60 families.
Immediate alarm, to help the Durigons and secure the fallen cable. On site, the Civil Protection, Terna’s emergency teams, who worked until 3 am, and the deputy mayor Alberto Rossetto, who lives nearby (his home and service station also registered damage) and coordinated the municipal rescue machine. From the holidays, with an incessant telephone bridge, the mayor Daniele Rostirolla also kept in constant contact. And yesterday the Civil Protection also distributed water to all the houses left without, even if there are those who resorted to the wells.
The responsibility for what could have become a tragedy is entirely due to bad weather, which ripped up a poplar with the fury of the wind, in the Barbasso wood, a green area between Morgano and the Cervara di Santa Cristina oasis, also crossed by the Sandrigo power line. -Udine, 380,000 volts.
And Durigon, still in shock, takes it out on the lack of maintenance of the green: “Certain plants, especially the older ones, are dangerous, due to the presence of electric cables, but also for circulation, it must be taken into account that older stems they cannot hold, and must be killed. And similar speeches must be made for the maintenance of the canals, the mowing of herbs, we must rupulire ». Will the ears be ringing at the Parco del Sile institution?
Rostirolla also asks for a change of pace in the management of greenery: “It was the perfect storm in an area where not all trees are constantly and adequately maintained. changing climatic phenomena “, he explains,” Ggli Old trees need more monitoring and control. This time it went well, the Durigon family is unharmed, but now we need to prevent ».