Waste in Rome, Tmb under escort. Fire brigade principals: “We fear arson”
A team of fire fighters stares out of the Tmb of Rocca Cencia and greater security shifts for workers ready to intervene in the event of fire in the other plants. It will be the Capitoline magistracy to say whether the one that broke out almost two weeks ago at Tmb2 and at the regasification Malagrotta it was arson or negligent. Meanwhile, the fear of new fires is growing in the few remaining plants in Rome for the treatment of waste, so much so that Loves and the companies in the sector operating in this area have decided to tighten controls.
In recent days, the municipal company has written to the Prefecture and the provincial fire brigade command of Rome for a fire-fighting system operating seven days a week and 24 hours a day, which, together with a team of firefighters, also includes the presence of a tank truck ready to intervene in the event of a fire in the Ama Tmb. That is, the only one owned by the company still in business and which is currently under the control of a commissioner appointed by the Court of Piazzale Clodio. Not only that, Colari – the company that owns the Tmbs of Malagrotta – has enhanced the shifts of the safety officers in line 1, which is still in operation because it is not lapped by flames.
After the accident of last June 15 at the Colari plant, Rome finds itself without an outlet to treat 500 tons of unsorted waste every day. 10 percent of the total. As a result, even more at the accident provider sites could bring a city to its knees, which wakes up every morning with nearly 600 tons of uncollected garbage and which remains in the bins to rot.
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Meanwhile, the prosecutor has appointed the technical consultant who will support the investigative nucleus of the firefighters in the investigations: it is the engineer Francesco Pepe, professor of chemical plants at the University of Sannio, who will have 60 days (net of further extensions) to find out the causes of the fire in Malagrotta. The prosecutor and the Noe carabinieri investigate for fire, but do not exclude either the hypothesis of willful misconduct or that of negligent act. According to the first findings of the brigade, at least there would be two points from where the flames originated. Meanwhile, with regard to the area affected by the fire, a gasifier (closed for years) would have been the case.
As for line 2 of the Tmb, it seems that the highest damage occurred in the part of this plant. This hypothesis, if confirmed, bodes well, because when the area is released, it could take less than a year to reactivate the line. In this regard, Colari has signed a policy which covers any eventuality and which guarantees coverage of 340 million euros. It goes without saying that if the fire were arson the company would be entitled not to pay.
Then there is another front, that of the fifty workers employed on Tmb2 and who at this point could go into layoffs. To cushion the repercussions, Colari and Ama are discussing a part of these workers at the Rocca Cencia plant. In the coming days, the two companies will also meet with the unions to find an agreement.
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