Six towns cut off due to severe weather near Bergamo, 350 evacuated

Six towns are cut off due to severe weather near Bergamo, and 350 evacuated people have been evacuated, rescue services said Friday as a wave of storms continued to sweep northern Italy. The six municipalities—Valleve, Carona, Foppolo, Branzi, Valbondione, and Gandellino—are still isolated due to the severe weather of the last few hours. In the six towns, 150 people were affected by various firefighter evacuation operations, and approximately twenty requests for assistance were received. The requests received by the Bergamo provincial command operations room primarily concerned landslides, flooding, and fallen trees. These interventions also included the evacuation of approximately 200 guests from a campsite in Isola di Fonda threatened by a swollen stream and a landslide. In Valleve, a la