Description
Activation time (UTC): 2019-07-31 15:23:00
Event time (UTC): 2019-07-28 18:00:00
Event type: Wildfire (Forest fire)
Activation reason:
In the late evening 28 July 2019, a wildfire broke out in the northern-eastern part of the Sardinia island, in the surrounding area of Siniscola town. There have been several fires in the area, but the most damaging was the one affecting a large part of Mediterranean scrub and several agriculture areas. According to the regional authority, six helicopters and two Canadair were involved to control the fire. Several houses and farms were evacuated in advance. The fire caused damage to the farms and the death of several animals.
Reference products: 0
Delineation products: 0
Grading products: 1
Copernicus Emergency Management Service - Mapping is a service funded by European Commission aimed at providing actors in the management of natural and man-made disasters, in particular Civil Protection Authorities and Humanitarian Aid actors, with mapping products based on satellite imagery.
Contact
Contributors
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- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/joint-research-centre
How to cite
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) (2019): Fire in Sardinia, Italy (2019-07-31). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/f9a7f8b7-f5de-414c-874f-61e8e2d60975
Keywords
CEMS Copernicus Copernicus Emergency Management Service Copernicus Emergency Management Service Rapid Mapping Activation Copernicus EMS Copernicus Service Emergency Management EMSR374 ITA Italy Mapping Rapid Mapping Wildfire Emergency
Data access
All maps produced in scope of this Copernicus EMS Rapid Mapping activation downloadable as georeferenced PDFs, TIFFs and JPEGs together with relevant vector data (SHP, KML) as well.
Spatial coverage
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|---|---|
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Lineage information
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Additional information
- Published by
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- Created date
- 2021-04-19
- Modified date
- 2021-04-19
- Issued date
- 2019-07-31
- Landing page
- https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR374
- Language(s)
- English
- Data theme(s)
- Regions and cities, Science and technology
- Update frequency
- unknown
- Identifier
- http://data.europa.eu/89h/f9a7f8b7-f5de-414c-874f-61e8e2d60975
- Popularity
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