Yesterday afternoon the carabinieri intervened in Salaparuta, in the province of Trapani, where in the district of "Monte Porcello" they blocked a 20-year-old student from Alcamo who had started a fire shortly before in a wooded area owned by the state, extended 60 hectares approximately.
The young man had set fire to some brush in a private estate, where his brother was working. Then he was unable to control the flames, the situation got out of hand and the fire broke out, extending towards the state property, risking to invest an even larger wooded area. Fortunately, the fire was limited and extinguished almost immediately. The damage caused is still to be quantified.
The man was placed under house arrest pending a very direct trial available to the judicial authority.