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 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