Trains, hours of passion for the Rome-Naples High Speed. Delays and inconveniences due to fires –

Passionate afternoon on the railway network between Rome and Naples: a fire near the high-speed tracks between Salone and Anagni, on the border between the provinces of Rome and Frosinone, caused traffic to be diverted to the conventional line, with cancellations and delays of up to three hours. Another fire then broke out in Campania, between Gricignano and Caserta, which worsened the situation along the AV line. Firefighters and RFI technicians intervened on site. In a cascade, after the interruption of the AV at Zagarolo, delays also accumulated for trains departing from Florence in the direction of Rome.

Codacons spoke of “enormous inconvenience” for thousands of travellers and invited “Trenitalia and Italo to provide due assistance to travellers both in stations and on trains, and to provide correct information about delays on the line, travel times and the possibility of reimbursement for unused tickets”.

In the province of Rome alone, due to the intense heat, there were over fifty interventions by the Fire Department for brush and vegetation fires. In Rocca di Cave, a large forest fire reached the edge of the roads. On Via Nettunense, near the Padiglione train stop, a brush fire broke out on the side of the road. In Sicily, the regional Civil Protection has issued an orange alert for tomorrow due to the risk of fires and heat waves. In Palermo, a maximum perceived temperature of 37 degrees is expected. In Sardinia, a large fire broke out in the countryside between the hamlets of Carbonia di Nuraxi Figus and Cortoghiana, with smoke visible from kilometers away. Three helicopters intervened – including a SuperPuma – and a Canadair that took off from Olbia. In the Matese Regional Park, in the municipality of San Gregorio Matese, in the Caserta area, it took 32 launches of a regional fire-fighting helicopter to put out the fire that affected a vast area in the Tre Fontane-Lago Matese area on Wednesday. An area of ​​30,000 square meters was exposed to the flames, of which 20,000 square meters were managed forest with tall beech trees and 10,000 square meters of pasture land.