- Title: RAW VIDEO: Italian Rescuers Aid Hospital Patients In Flooded Emilia-Romagna
- Date: 19th May 2023
- Description:Credit: Vigili del Fuoco/Cover Images This video shows Italian emergency services personnel delivering meals to a clinic in the flooded town of Cotignola in Emilia-Romagna on Thursday (18May2023). They delivered suppliesto hospitalised patients who willbe transferred to other hospital facilities due to the unprecedented floods in the region. More than 20 rivers have burst their banks in the Italian province, leaving 13 people dead and forcing thousands to flee their homes. Six months' rainfall has fallen in a day and a half this week. Almost every river between Bologna and the north-east coast 115km (70 miles) away has flooded. In addition, the rainfall has caused around 280 landslides. The mayor of Ravenna, a city badly affected by flooding, told the BBC it was the worst disaster in a century. Firefighters have been helping residents flee their houses, including a pregnant woman and a 97-year-old woman who had to leave her bedroom in a rubber dinghy.
- Collection: Cover Media
- Genre:Entertainment
- Producer:Cover Media
- Transmission Date:19/05/2023
- Decade: 2020s