Aglientu, the battle against the flames continues: two helicopters, a Super Puma and a Canadair, are in flight.

Third consecutive day of fighting the flames in Aglientu , where the regional firefighting team is trying to definitively put out the last outbreaks of the vast blaze that broke out on Monday, incinerating more than 20 hectares of pine forest and Mediterranean scrub near the beaches of Massidda and Lu Litarroni, in the environmental and naturalistic paradise of Monti Russu , a Site of Community Interest.

And the situation is rapidly worsening: since this morning, four vehicles have been deployed. First, two helicopters took to the skies to support the ground crews in the cleanup operations, then a Super Puma and a Canadair also intervened . The firefighting operations manager of the Luogosanto Forestry Station is coordinating the operations on site.

"Today, only a few fires are active," Mayor Marco Demuro said. "According to initial estimates , approximately 24 hectares of land, including a section of pine forest and Mediterranean scrub, have gone up in smoke. A section of the beach and the parking lot, which we evacuated on the first day, remain closed ."

Investigators from the Tempio Inspectorate and the Luogosanto Forestry Corps Station have opened a very delicate investigation, given the damage, into an Enel power line and in particular into a pole near which the fire's origin has been identified.

There is also controversy over the dismantling of the network of lookouts in the area, in particular the Forestas post in Aglientu.

(Unioneonline)