A loud roar around 7.45 in the morning and then the collapse. The firefighters immediately intervened with a Usar (Urban search and rescue) team, specialized in rescuing under the rubble, and all the people who were in the building were rescued. The wounded are nine in all. According to what emerged, a family on the ground floor were involved: a 45-year-old and a 51-year-old hospitalized in red code, two males of 7 and 10 years. A 32-year-old was rescued on the first floor, in red code. On the second floor another family is involved: a 41 year old, a 40 year old, a 3 year old child and a 7 year old female. Two adults and two children were taken to the Busto Arsizio hospital in green code. Two other children, aged 7 and 10, who were burned in the face, were taken to the hospital in Legnano: the first then to the Niguarda Center for Burns, the second to Turin with the helicopter rescue. Both were intubated. A burned adult was taken to Niguarda with the helicopter rescue, another burned adult was taken to Monza, while a third non-burned adult with a trauma was transported to the Varese hospital. In all, two helicopters, two advanced vehicles and two other health support teams, 10 ambulances intervened. It was almost a miracle that no one lost their life under the rubble; a relief for the president of the Lombardy Region, Attilio Fontana, "very happy that there were no victims and satisfied that everything went well, also for the timely intervention of the fire brigade, 118, law enforcement". that the conditions of all the wounded stabilize. The Municipality of Rescaldina immediately took action to find accommodation for the 27 people who lived in the building. "Now our priority is to fix the people who cannot go home", remarked the mayor, Michele Cattaneo. Police, firefighters and the judiciary are investigating the building. The Legnano carabinieri have also intervened on the site and investigations are underway to ascertain the possible causes of the collapse; from the first checks, the hypothesis of an explosion caused by a gas leak in an apartment on the ground floor emerges, even if witnesses and neighbors did not at first report having smelled it.
