Romagna, which was devastated by a flood a month ago, served as the final litmus test for Italian volunteers. In recent weeks, a rising tide of citizens has rushed to assist the flooded population. Football and basketball ultras have left Bologna, and a platform for social intervention has been established with active solidarity brigades. A private company in Ravenna has provided insurance for each and every rescuer. A digital entrepreneur in Cesena used the app it used to host concerts to match the supply and demand for volunteers. As a result, the Volontari Sos application now has 41,000 members who have offered their services to 28 municipalities. Numerous families almost universally welcomed displaced people into their homes, and the assistance of civil protection volunteers from all over Italy was crucial. Now, Romagna needs the promises of political assistance to materialize in order to avoid transitioning from shovels to pitchforks, as a recent article stated.