Discovery of the bodies of the last three missing, the toll rises to five victims

HAS Calenzanothe bodies of the last three missing were found after the explosion of the Eni depot. The death toll thus stands at five: Vincenzo Martinelli, Carmelo Corso, Davide Baronti, Gerardo Pepe and Fabio Cirielli. All the lightly injured people transported yesterday by the emergency services to the Careggi polyclinic in Florence and to the Prato hospital have either already been released or are about to be released. The three people present in Prato would have already left the hospital yesterday. Three people remain hospitalized, all in code red: two patients from the Pisa burn center, both in very serious condition, and a third person in sub-intensive care in Careggi. Yesterday, the Region announced a toll of 10 injured transported by emergency services to hospitals. To these were added at least 17 people, according to data provided yesterday by the prefecture, who presented themselves to hospitals with various, but not serious, injuries.

Explosion in Calenzano, discovery of the bodies of the last three missing: the toll of confirmed victims rises to five

Vincenzo Martinelli

The first confirmed victim of yesterday’s explosion at the Eni depot in Calenzano is Vincenzo Martinellia 51-year-old Neapolitan, but resident for at least 25 years in Prato. In the process of separating from his wife, he also leaves two daughters aged 18 and 21, to whom he was very attached. One of them had just obtained her driving license and it was he – say her friends – who had “proudly done the preparatory driving for the test with her”. The man was very attentive to the living conditions of his daughters, with whom he spent part of his free time and to whom he devoted all kinds of attention. Passionate about dogs and hunting, Martinelli had recently tried professional experience abroad, in Germany, but he returned to work in Prato, lacking his daughters, where he lived in the historic center. Everyone knew him there. He had been driving a tanker for a few minutes when the explosion occurred yesterday morning. Immediately overwhelmed by the flames, he had no chance. The cistern was also completely destroyed. Considered by all as a good man, many wanted to leave a memory on social networks.

Carmelo Corso

Carmelo Corso was to celebrate his 57th birthday, he was originally from Catania but had moved to Prato with his family since 1993. He lived in Paperino, via del Pozzo, leaving behind his wife Tamara and his two children Elena and Dario. He was an employee of Rat, the Tuscan Transport Association, and had been employed by Eni as a security guard. Monday morning, with the four other tank drivers, he was refueling under the awning of the Eni depot. He had been in for four minutes, at 10:16 a.m., just before the tragic explosion. His lifeless body was found yesterday with that of Vincenzo Martinelli.

Davide Baronti

Davide Baronti was from Angera, in the province of Novara. He was 49 years old, was a driver for Mavet and had entered his heavy goods vehicle, a tanker. Married with two daughters, he was a long-time resident of Livorno. Among the hypotheses examined by investigators on the causes of the explosion, a spark which would have made contact with one of the five tanks present under the loading canopy of the depot. His passion was the mountains. “A boy with a heart of gold,” said a friend.

Franco Cirielli and Gerardo Pepe

Franco Cirielli, 50, and Gerardo Pepe, 45, are the two Lucanians who died in the explosion that occurred yesterday in an Eni depot in Calenzano (Florence). This was confirmed by the mayors of Cirigliano (Matera) – where Cirielli lived – and of Sasso di Castalda (Potenza), the municipality of residence of Pepe, who was born in Germany. The news of the death of the two workers left a deep impression and deep sadness in the two small villages of Lucania – where municipal mourning will be proclaimed during the funeral – and throughout the region. Both were employees of ‘Sergen’, a company based in Grumento Nova (Potenza), which operates in the sector of maintenance of oil installations: neither of the managers wanted to speak to journalists. In the same company also works Luigi Murno, 37 years old, from Villa d’Agri di Marsicovetere (Potenza), seriously burned and currently hospitalized in Pisa. Cirielli had two young children, Pepe a 12 year old daughter. In the two small villages – Cirigliano has around 300 inhabitants, Sasso di Castalda around 700 – many tell journalists that Cirielli and Pepe were two people dedicated to work and family. “It’s terrible to know that two honest workers left their homes and never came back,” say, almost in unison, the mayors of the two municipalities, Marco Delorenzo (Cirigliano) and Rocchino Nardo (Sasso di Castalda) .