High alert due to the heat and in fact a fire broke out on state road 131: the road was closed at kilometer 85 at the junction for Santa Giusta with traffic temporarily blocked in both directions.

The fire brigade and the traffic police are at the scene.

The fire right next to the road, burning brushwood and vegetation with a column of smoke visible many kilometers away. The fire broke out in the early afternoon in an area of reeds near the Usignolo horse club and then, fed by the south-south wind, it spread, arriving close to the Carlo Felice .

Train traffic was blocked.

The flames do not give respite even in Medio Campidano and this afternoon a fire that had been put out in the morning at the gates of San Gavino Monreale regained strength. Thus the state road 197 was closed to traffic in the section that leads from Sanluri to San Gavino Monreale. A helicopter departing from the Marganai base is also in action to try to tame the flames.

Inconvenience also on the 130 due to fires in the territories of Uta, Siliqua and Villaspeciosa.

In Loiri Porto San Paolo , in the L'Ulivariu area, in Gallura, another fire broke out not far from some houses. As a precaution, the Civil Defense evacuated two families.

Other fires broke out on the island today and in two cases, in Jerzu and Sant'Andrea Frius, the Canadairs also had to intervene.

(Unioneonline/D)

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