AFTERQUAKE When the earth trembles… Imagine the morning after… San Pio Delle Camere, Abruzzo 2009.

AFTERQUAKE

When the earth trembles…Imagine the morning after…

San Pio Delle Camere, Abruzzo 2009

PEOPLE HELP THE PEOPLE

People Help The People…

And once there…

Ghost towns along the highway…

THE RESCUERS

“THE GYM”

Where people’s goods get stored

Boxes filled with clothes donated by Radio Rock and people from Ostia Lido

Outside the abandoned school gym now food and clothes supplies storage.

THE CAMP

SIGHT FROM SAN PIO DELLE CAMERE, AQ

San Pio delle Camere City Center, right outside the Gym

PEOPLE…

Davide and Valerio during a sortie for a code 180

Davide and I in the Camp

Giuseppe from ROMA XX

Vittorio and I chilling in the truck on the way to Onna

Davide and Luigi at “The Gym”

Flavio from ROMA XX(Two days later got seriously injured for the cold)

My Team(Vittorio, Valerio, Paolo and Davide) on the way back to the Camp

from left to right:

Alberto (myself), Davide, Vittorio, Filippo, Lucio, Rocco, Paolo, Valerio and Dr.Lucianetti in the Gym

IN THE END…

Special thanks to:

• Davide Leva for some of the photos• Vittorio Tayarol for involving me in this mission

• Roberto Iacobazzi and Massimiliano Pietroletti for allowing me to partecipate to the mission and to the sorties

• PROTEZIONE CIVILE NAZIONALE

• ASSOCIAZIONE NAZIONALE VIGILI DEL FUOCO IN CONGEDO Roma XX, Roma 13, Cisterna di Latina, Salerno, Monte Amiata

• MISERICORDIE Poggibonsi, Siena, Rieti

With special regards to San Pio Delle Camere’s Mayor Edoardo and his son Michele

FOR ALL THE HEROES I MET ALONG THE WAY

VIGILI DEL FUOCO VOLONTARI

“ROMA CASALOTTI”

HOOK AND LADDER STATION (8A)

EMS 118 STATION (AL1)

2009™Alberto Alicandro