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Every summer is always the same story: fires ravage our forests; foresters, firefighters and ordinary people risk their lives; Politics is outraged and lashes out (rightly) against arsonists, but in practice initiatives to fight the fires are non-existent. That is why it is useless to shout at the fire while everything burns and ash rains.
Prevention – when there is it – is lacking and during emergencies the fight against fire is done with blunt “weapons”. And to say that the technological solution would also be there to put out the fires started by the arsonists before they cause considerable damage, as happened in Altofonte. The point is that it is ignored.
A Palermo company, Ciodue di Carini, last year acquired a patent from a German company (Berlin’s Iq Wireless) that created a sensor capable of preventing fires by exploiting the technology used in space probes that study comets. . Not only that: thanks to GPS, the sensor can also identify the position of who started the fire. The system is called FireWatch. We had reported it Palermo Today, explaining in detail how it works.
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A way to sensitize public bodies in charge of safeguarding territories. The ones that should be the customers. The appeal launched by the company, also reinforced by the good results obtained by other countries such as Spain, Portugal, Canada and Germany itself, fell on deaf ears. Despite the numerous attempts made with public bodies such as the Region. Now the Ciodue is on the verge of bankruptcy and the workers are currently unemployed: some fifteen engineers, technicians and workers.
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“This project, which was the hope of relaunching a historic company that produced fire extinguishers and was involved in the installation and maintenance of fire extinguishing systems, – masticates amaro Francesco Foti, secretary of Fiom CGil Palermo – had to be taken into consideration and put into operation to avoid disasters committed by real criminals. Only with the help of new technologies can fires be seriously eradicated. Technologies that would give jobs to metallurgists and above all reduce the dangers for foresters, firefighters, civil protection and volunteers. All this increasing the protection of our immense forest heritage. However, as always, Sicilian politics have done nothing and still prefer Canadair. “
