"From Saturday morning, without interruption, we have brought, with my parliamentary colleagues in the territory of Saitta and Cappello, the proximity of the institutions to the citizens of Ramacca, Scordia, Palagonia, Lentini and Carlentini so badly affected by the bad weather. The level of precipitation and subsequent floods have had a strong impact on the family and working life of many citizens. The immediate intervention of the Armed Forces personnel allowed the first aid, together with the Firefighters and Civil Protection, to be brought to the civilian population. A further discomfort in terms of infrastructures can also be found in Sigonella, a military airport that hosts both Italian departments (41 ^ Stormo, the 11 ° Aircraft Maintenance Department and the 61 ° Predator Flight Group) and the US (Naval Air Station)."
So the Sicilian local deputy Gianluca Rizzo of M5S, president of the Fourth Defense Commission in the House in a press release released during the day. "I wanted to see in person and thanks to the ready availability of Colonel Francesco Frare, commander of the airport of Sigonella, the damage suffered in the fences of the base, in those of deposits and in general throughout the perimeter of the vast area near the river Dittaino overflowed in recent days."
Continue Rizzo: "The commitment of the Engineering Department of the Air Force Logistics Command and of the American military immediately mobilized to restore the minimum security guarantees of the perimeter is appreciable. However, several thousand euros of uprooted fences, embankments to be rebuilt, tens of cubic meters of mud to be shoveled and roads to be restored remain 'in the field'. I am convinced that the defense administration will be able to intervene promptly to allocate the adequate resources needed to finance the restoration work. Sigonella is an air monitoring base for national defense, fundamental for the work of contrasting human traffickers in the Mediterranean, as well as airspace control hubs also for the civil airports of Catania and Comiso. "-
"I felt - concludes Rizzo - in duty to represent the closeness of the institutions to Colonel Frare, responsible both for the Italian and American part of Sigonella's infrastructures and at my return to Rome I will start contacts with the Ministry and Aeronautics in order to follow closely the evolution of the necessary intervention plans."
