Massimo Gravinaassistant chief coordinator of the state police, 51 years old is the rescuer seen in a photo circulating on social media after it was posted by Giorgia Meloni. The policeman intervened a Ischia together with many colleagues from the first hours after the landslide.
«From Casamicciola a photo that transmits hope, a symbol of the great work of the many rescuers who have been busy for days in helping the population. The Government and all of Italy are grateful to you,” wrote the premier, posting the photo of the policeman with a little girl in his arms. «Never seen anything like this before, these compliments please me and all the colleagues who were with me that morning on that mountain. They are the demonstration of the union of the State with the population affected by such a great tragedy,” said the policeman according to reports from the Corriere della Sera.
Massimo Gravina lived in this area before the 2017 earthquake. Now he lives in another area of the island, but he was here immediately for relief efforts like his colleagues from the Ischia police station. «Actually last Saturday I was on duty in the afternoon, but when the calls from terrified people began to arrive at 113, our manager Ciro Re called us all right away to trigger the rescue. It seems strange, but until the day before it was sunny, nothing foreshadowed something like this…In front of us a lunar landscape, all covered by mud, on one side the houses were goneon the other they still existed but the landslide risked taking away even those with people inside».
He himself said that he reached eight people. «I took the four-year-old girl in my arms: she understood, she was scared but she clung to me and I took her downstairs. I’m quite a tough, tough guy, but living in such a situation in person breaks everyone’s heart ».
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In Ischia, the search for the last missing person is still underway and attempts are being made to secure the area. Rescuers extracted three other bodies from the rubble in the Via Celario area, the most affected by the river of mud. There are 11 confirmed victims. The last bodies recovered are those of Gianluca Monti, a 37-year-old taxi driver, father of the three dead children, and his wife Valentina and Salvatore Impagliazzo, companion of Eleonora Sirabella, the first confirmed victim of the landslide. Salvatore’s body was found in an abandoned house after the 2017 earthquake, dragged nearly 300 meters from the area where it was thought it might be.
On Friday 2 December, a worsening of the weather conditions is also expected. In the event of an alert, an evacuation plan was drawn up for about 300 families. The Minister for the South Nello Musumeci told the Chamber that there are about 900 buildings at risk to check.
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Source: Vanity Fair
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