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Snow, heavy winds wreak havoc, triggers gas explosion injuring 8

Snow, heavy winds wreak havoc, triggers gas explosion injuring 8

Snow wreaks havoc in higher elevations, parks closed

Grosseto. March 6, 06 March 2015, 17:50

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Children were evacuated Friday from a kindergarten in the historic city of Pitigliano amid fears that powerful winds blowing harsh weather across the country would also bring down trees onto the school structure.
    Firefighters were called in to cut two large cypress trees near the kindergarten in one of several emergency interventions up and down Italy on Friday.
    A popular tourist attraction in Florence, the Boboli Gardens near Palazzo Pitti, were closed after strong winds that Thursday ripped through parts of the Medici gardens.
    Ten families in the Tuscan town of Massa Carrara were trapped inside a building when high winds knocked down huge trees that blocked their exits.
    Rescue workers said their chain saws were not powerful enough to cut through the massive trees and they were forced to wait for experts with specialized tools.
    Meanwhile, snow and winds cut electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes and knocked out natural gas lines, in one instance causing a deadly fire blamed for injuring eight in Abruzzo.
    An avalanche isolated a small community near Ascoli Piceno in Marche, and an attempt to rescue nine residents - including some elderly people - failed Friday because of high winds.
    Rescue crews said they would try again on Saturday to evacuate the community, which was without electricity after snow crashed off Mount Sibilla.
    Clearing area roads of the snowslide is expected to take several more days.
    Cars were damaged and drivers injured in storms around Ciociaria south of Rome near Monte Cassino.
    One young man is in serious condition after trees bashed his car and weather has been blamed for several highway accidents including one where a lorry driver had to be extracted by rescue crews from the cab of his truck.
    Eight people were taken to hospital on Friday after extreme weather led to three explosions at a methane gas pipeline in the central Italian town of Pineto, causing a huge blaze.
    Four of the eight were admitted to hospital, among them a 10-year-old boy, sources at the hospital in the Abruzzo town of Atri told ANSA.
    The boy was admitted as a precaution, but his mother, who was also admitted, is in serious condition and undergoing surgery.
    The remaining four who were taken to hospital were not admitted but are currently in a state of shock, hospital sources said.
    Three houses were hit by the explosions - the nearest of which was under construction. The situation was brought under control by the shutting down of supplies along the pipeline.
    As a result the town of Atri is without gas.
    Strong winds reportedly caused the pipeline to give and the escaping gas then blew up when it came into contact with an electric cable that had broken away from a power pylon.
    The current wave of bad weather killed three people in separate incidents in different parts of Italy on Thursday.
   

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