{"id":5472,"date":"2026-04-09T17:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/5472\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T17:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:13:07","slug":"severe-weather-triggers-landslide-in-southern-italy-dozens-evacuated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/5472\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe Weather Triggers Landslide in Southern Italy, Dozens Evacuated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A landslide triggered by recent <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/vigilidelfuoco\/status\/2041837759023677794\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:severe weather;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;severe weather&quot;}\" class=\"link \">severe weather<\/a> struck the town of Salcito, in southern Italy, on Thursday, April 9, forcing residents to evacuate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Firefighters said they had been on site since the morning after the landslide hit several homes, leading to the precautionary evacuation of around 50 people. Structural checks were underway, while a helicopter carried out aerial reconnaissance to monitor the affected area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The landslide also disrupted traffic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quotidianomolise.com\/articolo\/paura-a-salcito-per-una-frana-in-centro-50-sfollati-e-verifiche-dei-vigili-del-fuoco\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:local media reported;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;local media reported&quot;}\" class=\"link \">local media reported<\/a>. Credit: Vigili del Fuoco via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A landslide triggered by recent severe weather struck the town of Salcito, in southern Italy, on Thursday, April&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2493,5,4124,2495,2904],"class_list":{"0":"post-5472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-italy","8":"tag-firefighters","9":"tag-italy","10":"tag-salcito","11":"tag-severe-weather","12":"tag-southern-italy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}