The mayors of Carlisle and Celenza: risk another 'earthquake'
Carlisle (Fg) - The town of Carlisle Celenza Valfortore and to put forward officially request for extension of emergency rule on the post-earthquake reconstruction 2002. "The reconstruction is not completed for damaged houses and classified in Group B and C - said the mayor of Carlisle, Dino D'Amelio - is also still standing problem of the VAT refund on costs for the reconstruction work ". The extension, requested to complete the reconstruction work in progress and for a period of not less than two years, has been addressed, as well as the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, also the President of the Puglia region as a delegate to the Commissioner seismic events in the province of Foggia, the President of the Republic, the head of the Civil Protection Department and the Prefect of Foggia . "We have to make functional the damaged houses to let people back - said the mayor of Valfortore Celenza, Francesco Santoro - not an extension would have fewer facilities and less means of achieving that goal." The two mayors have stressed the important role played by the commissioner structure which enable it to overcome the many difficulties which have arisen for the post-earthquake measures, noting how this structure should be retained to complete their reconstruction work. In the days past also met the Regional Council of Molise to approve an agenda to ask the new government reconstruction funds. Molise advisers stressed that the post-earthquake problem is not a political issue or a tool for political debate as it happened in the past (also in Puglia) but it is only a problem to solve in order to protect the rights of citizens earthquake . In short, a change of course that the mayors of Carlisle and Celenza greatly appreciated and shared. D'Amelio and Santoro have requested that the Region of Puglia to move in this direction with the involvement of parliamentarians Foggia, to enact laws that extend also to the captains the same treatment already given to other Italian areas damaged by earthquakes. On 31 October the towns of Carlisle and Celenza recalled the eighth anniversary of the earthquake of 2002. The two centers of the Mountains Dauni were among the hardest hit in terms of damaged houses (hundreds of evacuation orders) for both economic and social consequences. Unfortunately, after eight years, the situation is still very critical especially for the conditions in which the damaged houses, some with collapsed roofs in the last year or even in a few months. "We risk another earthquake - the two mayors complain - the next rainfall and snowfall could further affect the state delle abitazioni mettendo a serio rischio anche l’incolumità delle persone che abitano nelle case adiacenti e confinanti a quelle inagibili”.
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