L'importante nevicata che ha interessato per 36 ore il territorio comunale nei giorni 6 e 7 January, has also requested the activation of the extraordinary GCVPC under the coordination of Civil Protection Structure at the Department of Safety, Local Police and Civil Defence. The preventive alert weather has enabled the rapid activation of the volunteers who have done so during the event to assist those in need. Among the interventions made, with the new vehicle supplied transportation to the city hospital of a person that needed to be ambulatory dialysis but unable to reach the hospital and the delivery of hot meals from the kitchen to the central municipal kindergartens and the new communal table for those in need.
In the days following, on behalf of the Crisis municipal GCVPC took steps to clear the snow from all access to cemeteries and the churches in town who needed it, encouraging the resumption of normal funeral and worship. In addition, in collaboration with the Volunteer Corps Parco del Ticino - Detachment of Gallarate, bags of salt were distributed to all public schools in the city.
