The Italian government on Monday
called a summit at the civil protection department in Rome on
a fire emergency in Sicily that has seen thousands of hectares
of woodland and brush go up in smoke.
Civil protection chief Fabrizio Curcio wrote a letter to
Sicily Governor Rosario Crocetta saying he region was short of
equipment to fight the fires and badly organised on the ground.
At Grammiche, near Catania, part of the Kalatimpiati waste
treatment plant has been blazing for two days.
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