Overview
- Since August 8 the blaze has consumed roughly 500 hectares along a three-kilometer front and remains uncontained as of August 10.
- On August 9 Minister Nello Musumeci decreed an extraordinary civil protection mobilization, dispatching six Canadairs, four regional helicopters and over 100 ground personnel.
- No evacuations have been ordered but the town of Terzigno remains on high alert after flames threatened its outskirts.
- Prosecutors in Nola and Torre Annunziata have opened arson investigations over suspected deliberate ignition linked to land reclamation profits.
- A separate 2.5-hectare wildfire at Argentario near Porto Ercole has been extinguished, underscoring Italy’s broader summer fire threat.