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Thousands of residents in towns around the northeast Italian cityof Ferrara wandered in a daze Sunday amid the stench of gas leaksas aftershocks hit the region after a deadly quake. "I felt the house dancing around. It was chaos. We ran in alldirections," said Claudio Bignami, 68, a retired electrician in thetown of San Carlo. "The furniture all fell over. There was broken glass everywhere,"said Bignami, as he stared out of his store at a collapsingrestaurant in front. "We're all trying to help each other out now," he said. Small aftershocks continued to sow panic in the sparsely populatedfarmlands, industrial parks and small towns around the historiccity of Ferrara even after the main 6.0-magnitude shock in theearly hours of the morning that left at least six dead. Cracks were visible in the roads and chimneys and roof tileslittered the streets. At a nearby ceramic factory where twoemployees died, the crashing sounds of falling crates of tilescould still be heard long after the quake. Alda Bregoli, 73, was still in her nightshirt with a woollen jumperthrown on top standing under an umbrella in the rain. "I had to run out as quickly as possible. I didn't have time to putanything on. The firemen told me I can't go back in. I'm scared,"she said. Out of habit, many residents crowded around shuttered bars wherethey would usually go on a Sunday and looked for emergency workers,asking them to inspect the damage in their homes and worried aboutwhere they could stay the night. Local business owners began calculating the extent of the damage. One angry man in a baseball cap living in an isolated home in thecountryside, still under shock, shouted: "Why are there noemergency workers here helping me? The roof of my house has fallenin! Why are they ignoring me?" The earthquake left many of the region's modern two-storey homesintact but older buildings, ancient churches and belltowers whichdot the flatlands were badly hit -- some collapsed, others hadgaping cracks. The centre of Ferrara is classified as a UNESCO World Heritagesite. A local chapel in San Carlo, the 16th-century Ghisilieri Oratorium,which had just been re-opened after an eight-year restoration, layin ruins. "We'll never be able to rebuild it," sighed Claudio Fabbri, 37, anarchitect from Modena who has been working on the project and whorushed to the scene in the early hours after a local resident toldhim what had happened. Statues of angels in the chapel's apse stared into the open skyafter the roof and most of the walls caved in. Fabbri said his onlyhope was to save a precious painting above the altar now exposed tothe elements. "We even had an Internet campaign to raise funds to restore theterracotta flooring. A lot of local residents contributed," saidFabbri, shaking his head. "It was a very rich church. During the restoration we uncovered a16th-century fresco in the ceiling. It even has the relics of apope.". I am an expert from ledkeychaingift.com, while we provides the quality product, such as Led Flashing Badges Manufacturer , Pen Holder Gift Manufacturer, Solar Led Keychain,and more.
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