Quake tent camps shut down

(ANSA) - Ancona, October 24 - Thousands of homeless survivors of an August 24 earthquake in central Italy are no longer living in civil protection tents and 800 to 900 temporary wooden houses will be needed to house them, National Civil Protection Department chief Fabrizio Curcio said Monday.
    "The tent camps have been shut down," he told reporters on the sidelines of a conference between House Speaker Laura Boldrini and the governors of the quake-stricken regions of Lazio, Marche, Abruzzo and Umbria. "Five or six people are still living in tents, for specific reasons," he said. "But I wouldn't count them as being part of the (civil protection) tent camps".
    Curcio added that based on numbers provided by local and regional officials from the stricken areas, 800-900 wooden units will be required to house the displaced survivors until permanent homes are rebuilt.
    At the end of September, Curcio said it "will take seven months at the most" to build the temporary housing and that of the 3,000 displaced by the quake, 2,500 were living in Civil Protection Department tents.