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Landslide Buries Home in Friuli as Atlantic Storms Batter Italy, With Two Missing and Hundreds Evacuated

Forecasters now expect an Arctic air intrusion from mid‑week, dropping temperatures sharply and pushing snow to lower elevations.

Overview

  • Brazzano di Cormons (Gorizia) was hit by a night‑time mudslide that collapsed a house, with one person rescued alive and searches under way for two missing after 152 mm of rain fell in six hours.
  • Friuli Venezia Giulia declared a regional emergency, extended weather alerts and reported roughly 300 evacuees in Versa (Romans d’Isonzo) after the River Torre overflowed, with additional flooding from the Judrio.
  • Specialist teams including Vigili del Fuoco GOS units, USAR squads and fluvial rescuers were deployed, while Palmanova’s hospital basements flooded without disrupting patient care.
  • Liguria continued damage assessments after downburst winds and flooding around Genoa, with about 100 fire‑service interventions in 24 hours, road closures from landslides and a shift from orange to yellow alert overnight.
  • Tuscany recorded fresh disruptions from severe downpours, including allagamenti near Carrara, a major landslide in Pietrasanta and rain totals over 200 mm in parts of Lucca province.