“Rather than counting the damage, right now we are working on (drawing up a plan to return the city to normal by the end of August),” Sala said, speaking on the sidelines of commemorations for the Cosa Nostra mafia bombing in Via Palestro on July 27, 1993.
“Right now, I prefer to have all the forces in the field, fire brigade, police, army, Atm, Amsa, working,” the mayor continued.
“On Tuesday I will bring them all together (for a meeting) because I want to have a plan on the table that will lead us to a situation that I hope will be normalised by the end of August,” Sala said.
“I ask the citizens to understand that the situation cannot be restored overnight,” he added.
Sala added that the city would request a state of emergency along with the Lombardy region, which was equally badly affected by the extreme bad weather and has said it’s suffered around €41 million worth of damage.
The government is expected to allocate funds next week.
However, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said in a video before the cabinet meeting on Wednesday that “the medium-term objective that the government has set itself is to overcome the logic of fragmented interventions by launching a major hydrogeological prevention plan”.
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