Second weekend of August with a black dot Saturday for departures for the mid-August bridge. In anticipation of the increase in vehicular flows this morning, Anas (Society of the Infrastructure Pole of the FS Italiane Group) oversees the network with constant monitoring of personnel, prompt intervention in case of critical situations and […]
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Sicily. Fourteen year old transferred from Catania to Milan with Falcon 900 of the Italian Air Force
A Falcon 900 Easy aircraft of the 31st Wing of the Italian Air Force landed at the Milan-Linate airport about an hour ago. On the Catania-Milan route, the plane carried out the emergency medical transport of a 14-year-old boy in imminent danger of life. The young patient, previously hospitalized at the "Sant'Elia" Hospital in Caltanissetta, needed specific life-saving treatments [...]
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Second intervention in two days conducted with an HH-139B helicopter of the 82nd SAR Center of Trapani in synergy with personnel of the National Alpine and Speleological Rescue Corps of Sicily Another air rescue intervention for a crew of the 82nd Search & Rescue Center of the 15th Wing stationed in Trapani. In the early afternoon of today, Saturday [...]
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The intervention was conducted with an HH-139B helicopter of the 82nd SAR Center of Trapani in synergy with personnel of the National Alpine and Speleological Rescue Corps of Sicily An HH-139B helicopter of the 82nd Search & Rescue Center of Trapani intervened to lend rescue of a 62-year-old man who, engaged in an excursion in a mountainous area of the municipality [...]
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It is the second recovery of this type carried out in a few hours by the crews of the 82nd SAR Center of the 15th Wing of Cervia off the western coast of Sicily. A 46-year-old Australian woman, in imminent danger of her life due to a serious illness , was recovered from the cruise ship World Europe. The […]
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This afternoon a helicopter from the 82 ° CSAR Center (Combat Search And Rescue) of Trapani, took off to carry out a double rescue at the Riserva dello Zingaro (TP) A crew of the 82 ° SAR Combat Center of Trapani, in readiness for alarm with HH-139B helicopter, received the mission order from the Operations Room of the Rescue Coordination Center (RCC) of the Command [...]
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This afternoon a helicopter from the 82nd CSAR (Combat Search And Rescue) Center of Trapani took off to rescue two girls at the Riserva dello Zingaro (TP) A crew of the 82nd SAR Combat Center of Trapani, in readiness alarm with HH-139B helicopter, received the mission order from the Operations Room of the Rescue Coordination Center (RCC) [...]
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First at the island of Marettimo and immediately following in Erice, the rescue carried out in the province of Trapani in collaboration with the National Corps of Alpine and Speleological Rescue A rescue mission for a crew of the 82nd Combat Center has just ended. Search and Rescue (CSAR) of the Italian Air Force which took off from the military airport [...]
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The Meteorological Service of the Air Force attributes the name "Apollo" to the cyclonic perturbation that is affecting the southern Ionian regions, in particular Sicily, and which has undergone a new intensification in these last hours, thus identifying the meteorological event with this name on all the graphic and textual production related to the topic. The disturbance, which originated on [...]
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Sicily in the lead, followed by Campania and Puglia There are a total of 403 interventions admitted for funding under the public notice of € 125.860.806,73 to be assigned to local authorities in Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Molise, Puglia, Sardinia and Sicily for the safety of school canteens and gyms, play areas and sports facilities for use [...]
read moreAccording to reports from the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, a strong earthquake of magnitude 4.6 was felt in particular in the province of Ragusa. According to the Ingv, the quake, which would have been felt in various provinces of Sicily, lasted for about ten seconds. The earthquake was clearly felt in the Ragusa area, in [...]
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Meeting dedicated to Sicilian infrastructures and air connections with the island, the one held at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport between Minister Paola De Micheli, the Minister of the South and Territorial Cohesion Giuseppe Provenzano and the President of the Sicily Region Nello Musumeci. Minister De Micheli explained that she wanted to [...]
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"I stay at home". "Everything will be fine". These are the phrases that every Italian now continues to repeat from home on social media, while reflecting on this situation of global health crisis that forces us to quarantine. #NowI'll stay at home. After ... I'll go to Sicily, so you want to promote the after, when everything will end. The interest in Italy and in particular in the [...]
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Thus in a note the Political Coordinator of the UDC in Sicily, Hon. Decio Terrana, so that the Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte can also urgently intervene on the serious socio-economic crisis that is causing the alarm in recent days about the spread of the "Coronavirus". "The spread of the COVID-19 virus in Italy, and now throughout Europe, is causing a serious collapse [...]
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The operational activities launched in the area with the coordination of the Traffic Police Service to combat the phenomenon of illicit vehicle traffic, focused on checks on public establishments connected to vehicles. In particular, they were carried out in the Sicily Region after an accurate and targeted analysis of the risk indicators in the context of [...]
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The situation in Libya these days is undergoing an unprecedented escalation where Turkey is already sending war material and militiamen (from Syria) to Tripoli to support the troops of the head of the provisional government, recognized by the UN, Fayez al Serraj. Erdogan is waiting for the parliamentary seal that should have next January 2, [...]
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Air rescue is just one of the services that the Air Force carries out, non-stop, every day, for the community and for the safety of the country. August 82th is a day like any other for those who save lives. A helicopter and the crews of the XNUMX search and rescue center of the Trapani Birgi Air Force are engaged by this [...]
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The air rescue crews of the Air Force are still in action, engaged in this case in a complex mission to recover a young Roman hiker who had accused an illness inside the Zingaro Reserve, in Sicily. An HH-139 helicopter from the 82 SAR Center (Search and Rescue) of the Trapani Birgi air base intervened, one [...]
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Italy is trying to get all African support, in view of the Palermo conference on Libya scheduled for 12 and 13 November. Thirty-four African countries and 13 international organizations, including the European Union, are invited to participate in the Rome Conference, organized by the Italian Foreign Ministry, next Thursday. The Minister of [...]
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Davide Faraone, Undersecretary of State of the Ministry of Education, University and Research in the Renzi Government and Undersecretary of Health in the Gentiloni Government, in a meeting held at the "Cambiamenti" headquarters in Palermo and focused on the political elections scheduled for next March 4, he commented with the journalists present: "If we renew the lists we [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The dream of every artist in the world of cinema is to be able to study, or deepen their studies in the United States. Hollywood in the collective imagination is “cinema”, the one then imported all over the world. The School, the Academy, in short, the University of the Universities of the world beyond the objective of a camera, of a [...]
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Over 16000 liters of water dropped on Monte Catalfano, the mountain range that overlooks the municipality of Bagheria (Palermo) An HH-212 helicopter from the Air Force air rescue intervened this afternoon on Monte Catalfano to contribute to the extinguishing of a vast fire that developed on the mountain range overlooking the town of [...]
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Since mid-July, the helicopters of the Air Force have been operating in Sicily as part of the defense device in support of the Civil Protection for the fight against fires. In particular, an HH-212 helicopter from the 80th CSAR Center (Combat Search and Rescue) in Decimomannu (Cagliari), equipped with a special bucket capable of loading about 700 liters of water, is [...]
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