- MYSTERIOUS FIRES IN THE MESSINA AREA
- (AGI) - Messina, 10 Feb - The mysterious phenomenon of
the spontaneous fires that provoked fear and surprise among the residents
of Canneto on the Tyrrhenian coast of the province of Messina has come
to a standstill in the last twelve hours. The thirty or so inhabitants
of the village who were evacuated for security reasons have not yet been
able to go home. Experts of the State Rescue Services continue to carry
out checks whilst awaiting special machinery from Milan in order to get
more precise results. Yesterday the fires had become paradoxical and were
even breaking out in water pipes or between pieces of electrical wire which
had been cut and were lying on the ground without being connected to any
source of energy.
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- The electricty has been turned off in Canneto for several
days but this did not stop the fires breaking out. In the course of the
last few days the flames developed again and again without any plausible
explanation in domestic appliances, intercoms, plugs, meters. Checks by
electricity company ENEL and technicians from the RFU have for the moment
excluded any link between the fires and the electrical pylons of the Palermo-Messina
railway line which passes only a few metres from the houses and which the
residents believe are in some way responsible. (AGI) .
- 101632 FEB 04
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