“The government has been late” is the main premise with which the Directorate of the Popular Party of Alberto Núñez Feijóo tries to face the serious wave of fires that the Peninsula has been raised for days sweeping more than 400,000 hectares, according to the first balances, and that has re -questioned the management of autonomic governments in Galicia, Castilla y León, Andalusia and Extremadura. The competences in fire prevention and extinction are of the communities and despite the fact that the aforementioned autonomies most affected by the fires are governed by the PP, Genoa 13 has urged, as he tried to do in the DANA of Valencia, a strategy to try to blame the central government. In that strategy, the regional presidents of those autonomous communities have been involved, with greater or lesser intensity that try to point to the Sánchez executive while trying to hide that their administrations maintain inoperative crews and extinction services due to lack of personnel and even give instructions to withdraw from the fires to their own teams while claiming more means to the central government and even Europe.
The same Tuesday, during one of the most aciagas days in the fight against fire, the Xunta de Galicia withdrew several firefighters from the four provinces of the community while its president, the popular Alfonso Rueda, continued to ask the government more means and launching outstanding criticisms of the Executive of Sánchez. As the SERA Cadena advanced, some troops received with surprise the instruction to withdraw when they were on their way to areas affected by fire in the province of Ourense, where until Wednesday more than 88,000 hectares had already burned.
Although at first the Xunta justified the decision explaining that it was urban firefighters, non -forestry, the Rueda government reversed on Wednesday morning, as soon as its instruction transcended, and re -mobilized these troops for sanitation and liquidation work of forest perimeters.
Sources of the Galician government extinction device regret that Rueda and other leaders of the Xunta continue to claim media to other administrations while maintaining paralyzed for lack of personnel part of their own infrastructure. For example, motobombas, who remain parked because they do not have workers to operate with them. In the list of media that the Xunta asked the Government to combat the wave of fires in Ourense there are 30 trucks of this type, although according to the unions and has been able to verify eldiario.es the motobombs that belong to the Galician government themselves remain stopped for a good part of the day when they lack operators to handle them. The Xunta has not answered at the moment to the questions of this newspaper about this contradiction of asking the Executive with additional tools to which it provides and cannot use for that lack of workers.
In Extremadura, where 16,780 hectares and his president, María Guardiola, have already brought on Tuesday, more government media, forest firefighters of a retainer in northern Cáceres denounced on Wednesday in statements to Eldiario.es that while they continue arriving from other autonomous communities for fires to them they have not mobilized despite being within the area of action of the fire. In northern Cáceres. “We had to go out to work without a truck one day, because it had been damaged for hours and nobody fixed it. We were with two water backpacks and with manual tools, but since Saturday we have not turned off a flame,” said one of the troops.
As he recounts, the seals farthest from the coordination centers are accustomed to the fact that, in many occasions, they are not called to be in the northern and farthest area of the center of the region. However, he ensures that in this concrete situation, with as many active fires as there has been and with the seriousness of Jarilla, it is very strange that they are not mobilized. “What worries us most and generates uncertainty is that nobody explained anything to us, we do not know why it happens or what decisions are being made, but we are looking forward to going to work to collaborate in the extinction of the largest fire that our region has suffered,” says the source consulted.
In addition, according to the country and the SER chain this Wednesday night, both Extremadura and Castilla y León requested the deployment of European media three days after they were activated by the Government.
Eight days later in Castilla y León
eldiario.es revealed on Tuesday that the Junta de Castilla y León in the hands of Alfonso Fernández Mañueco waited until the ninth day of the fire wave that began on August 7, when thousands of hectares had already burned in the community, to “urgently” call the personnel specialized in the fight against fire that was on vacation or rest so that the work of extinction was reincorporated. Thus, it was not until the 16th when the General Directorate of Natural Heritage and Forest Policies, which is responsible for the anti -capital operation and directs José Ángel Arranz, sent a message to the heads of the Environment Service requesting those return.
In his appearance on Wednesday Mañueco recognized that delay, although he only assumed “incidents” in the coordination of the troops and defended his performance. “I answer from each and every decisions of the Operation of Castilla y León,” he said. The Castilian and Leonese president also said that he has forced “to try to mobilize the largest number of technicians and environmental agents to be able to give rest to all the people who are working.”
In that same community, the army installed on Monday, in one of the most virulent days of the fires, two advanced command posts in the province of León, one of the most affected, at the request of the Junta de Mañueco. Although everything was willing, one of them was not even used, according to the personnel who helped install it and took care of the provisioning.
The request that the Army intervened beyond the Emergency Military Unit (UME), which already regularly goes to all level 2 fires, has been a constant in the public appearances of Feijóo since the beginning of the crisis. Last Friday, the president of the PP demanded greater mobilization and more resources, although he rejected that the communities requested a level 3 so that the operational command was assumed by the Pedro Sánchez team.
The Mañueco Board did expressly requested military bases of support to the Castilian and Leon anti -capital operation in the towns of Bembibre and Cistierna. The army installed devices in the two municipalities on Monday. In Cistierna he distributed beds and tables to serve up to 180 people and food to guarantee the feeding of the staff on the fire. However, the regional government never sent any of its troops there, as eldiario.es revealed.
Asked about it, Mañueco acknowledged on Wednesday that no one went to Cistierna despite his request and shielded that the media “are used when the director of the operation decides.” At a press conference, the Castilian and Leonese president just transferred his “full support and without reservation to each of her decisions” and, despite the evidence, he said that the means that arrive are “exploited to the fullest, provided that the circumstances advise.”
Precisely, the mayor of Cistierna, Luis Mariano Santos, denounced in the early hour that one of the companies hired by the Junta de Castilla y León in the fire operation on Tuesday launched an employment offer in Infojobs for five fire extinguish operators without requiring previous experience. The positions are offered only for three months. Mañueco avoided on Wednesday to give details about that offer ensuring that he cannot talk about her.
Visibly annoyed by the attacks he is receiving from the communities governed by the PP, the Director of Civil Protection, Virginia Barcones, rejected the criticism of the communities of the PP on Wednesday and, in an interview in the Chain being, He said that “at all times the media that were requested has been made available to the communities.” “In an emergency there is always someone who directs it. In this case, due to the emergency level, it is the autonomous communities that see what they need and where the media have to go. The rest we are working since anticipation,” he insisted, before demanding from the rest of the institutions a certain planning because between the media and they reach their destination they take a few hours.
The PP says that the government “tries to download its inoperance”
In the Valencian Community, where the Government of Carlos Mazón eliminated the Emergency Unit of the Community in 2024, four months after coming to power, the Generalitat slowed the sending of two forest fire units to Castilla y León announced by the president himself last Monday. The Department of Emergencies, at the request of the Diputación de Castellón, rectified the president and decided to suspend the sending of the two units before the twenty fire of fires that were recorded derived from different thunderstorms. The Department of Emergencies, Juan Carlos Valderrama, recognized this situation and defended the decision to retain the troops, as well as their subsequent shipment on Tuesday, due to the lack of troops in the community.
In this context of obvious lack of coordination of its communities, the PP Directorate decided to continue focusing its criticisms on the central government. The spokeswoman for the Senate party, Alicia García, defended on Wednesday the management of its regional presidents while announced that she will enable the remainder of August so that the Ministers of the Interior, Defense and Ecological Transition appear in the Upper House to give explanations for their fire management. Garcia insisted that the Sánchez government arrived at the crisis “bad, late and that” try to download his inoperance in others. ”
*With information from Antonio Vega, Luís Pardo, Sandra Moreno y Carlos Navarro.
Source: www.eldiario.es
