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PREVENT THE FIRES IS A DUTY OF EVERYBODY

WE LEARN TO DEFEND OUR WOODS

 
  1. Do not light fires near woody areas.
     
  2. Do not throw from the car windows ends of cigarette.
     
  3. Do not light the stubbles in the fields when there is wind and the vegetation is dry; respect the on matters regional rules, circumscribing and isolating the ground with a ploughed strip of sufficient effective width to stop the fire.
     
  4. Not leave a little fire, along the road border or in the wood, to turn it into a fire, intervene with your strengths.
     
  5. In the case the fire is already of average proportions informs at once the forest guards or the Firemen, phoning on the numbers 1515-115.
     
  6. When one is engaged to put out a fire it is important:
  1. Use a green branch beating with decision on the basis of the flames; if one has a shovel at disposal, search of the earth and throw it on the basis of the flames.
     
  2. You never must put you in front of the fire if there is wind, the heat and the smoke could have you the senses lost; with strong wind it is advisable to attach of the fire front from the sides.
     
  3. To protect him from the smoke use on the face a handkerchief wetted with water
     
  4.  Not fight the flames alone, so in case of indisposition you be aidded in time
     
  5. It is important to create a "fireguard road" to block the fire front; choose the less woody zone along the flame advancement, from where to begin to excavate and cut the various shrubs
     
  6. Avoid in the most absolute way of light "against fire" above all if there is wind, this very difficult operation has to be let only do who is competent in the struggle to the woodsy fires
     
  7. The fire can start again at a distance of time covering wood sections through the same roots as the trees; it is necessary to keep an eye and guard the burned zones definitively turning every still smoking part off.

Furthermore always remember us:

  1. Not abandon the flammable rubbish in the woods, especially paper and plastic which are combustible easily, pick up them in the suitable containers or take them away.
     
  2. In the zones more exposed to the fires, about the habitations and the buildings, clean the ground from the infesting vegetation or rubbish easily flammable.
     
  3. Do not obstruct the fire switching off operations, hampering the road to the fireproof motorvehicles or the engaged men against the fire.

At last get tired never to awaken the other ones on the necessity of protecting our woodsy property. The other wood destruction makes the processes of erosion and desertificazione easier.