Forest fires continue to devastate the peninsula. The fire continues to advance in the fires of León and Ourense, which together add 39 active spotlights. The flames have also entered the Picos de Europa Park. The fire of Cáceres, in Jarilla, is uncontrolled.
Pedro Sánchez has announced that he will propose a great state pact for mitigation and adaptation to the country’s climatic emergency. The president of the Government has reached the Cecopi in Ourense to know the evolution of fires in Galicia. He has also reported that the armed forces will be deployed in the region to help the Galician troops at the request of the Xunta. Thousands of people are still evacuated in the affected populations, numerous roads remain cut and although some fires are saved, new ones are declared without fire extinguishing services being able to stop them all.
You can consult here the last hour of each Autonomous Community:
Estremadura
The fire progresses without control in the front of Jarilla, north of the province of Cáceres. This Sunday is his sixth day and has already burned 11,000 hectares, and is “completely runaway” on his north flank, so he has given a warning to Castilla y León due to the possibility that he can enter its territory. In their extinction, 17 aerial media work, in a very complicated and difficult access area, as reported by the president of the Board of Extremadura, María Guardiola.
This fire was about to be stabilized on Friday, but was reactivated on Saturday for an unfavorable wind night. It is currently “totally uncontrolled” and without acting in 70% of its extension due to lack of accessibility and the conditions it presents.
The town of Rebollar, about 200 inhabitants, has been evacuated tonight due to the proximity of the fire next to the town of Gargantilla. Likewise, the confinement of Hervás has been decreed, already in the Ambroz Valley and with some 4,000 inhabitants, and border with the province of Salamanca. The customers of the Valle del Jerte spa were also asked last night to leave the facilities voluntarily. On the other hand, progress is being made in the extinction of the front that advanced towards the city Plasencia, on which nine air media have been able to act. At the moment in Extremadura there are seven large active fires and also worries that of Aliseda, which is “active.”
Galicia
More than 50,000 hectares burned and up to 12 active fires in Galicia, all in the province of Ourense. Two of his spotlights are in a maximum emergency situation, as reported by the president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda. More than 3,000 professionals from the community prevention and defense service strive to control fires, and the Xunta has asked the support of the armed forces to the government.
The Chandrexa de Queixa fire, which yesterday joined the requirements of Requeixo and Parafita and also that of Vilariño de Conso-Mormente them, has already razed more than 17,000 hectares and has forced to evacuate hundreds of neighbors. They also worry Maceda’s fires, with 3,000 hectares burned; Oimbra-a Granxa, with 11,000; To Mosque and A Culqueira, with 9,000 and those that affect the municipalities of Petín, Quiroga and Rúa and that in the last hours has gone from the 2,000 hectares burned at 4,000.
Castilla y León
The Autonomous Community has active 27 fireworks – their best at a maximum alert level and another ten at a serious level – and has had to evict about 3,250 neighbors. The situation in the province of León is still complicated, with a dozen of them without control. This Saturday three new fires were generated: one in Almanza, with a very serious prognosis, which has gone to plencia; that of Gestoso, who has passed to Ourense; and that of Cain, which already affects the Natural Park of Picos de Europa, where evacuations have been ordered, and the Cares path. The latter joins another fire of Asturias, and the authorities sent this Saturday night the ES-Alert notice to evacuate the area. In the province of León alone, there are more than 1,400 affected neighbors.
The Porto de Sanabria fire is complicated in Zamora due to a storm with changing winds of up to 50 kilometers per hour, and advances quickly to Ourense. The 1,350 residents of the town remain evacuated. The Mozyuelas fire of La Carballeda, which aims to be the largest in the history of Spain with more than 31,500 hectares affected and in which two young people have died in extinction work in Nogarijas (León), also evolves satisfactorily. And that of Pors, despite some reproductions, it has been possible to reduce its alert level to 1.
This Sunday, Pedro Sánchez has visited together with the president of the Board Fernández Mañueco the burned area in the Villablino region (León), where the head of the Autonomous Executive has requested more means of the Army and the European Civil Protection mechanism to reinforce the operation. After the visit, Fernández Mañueco has accused Sánchez on social networks of not having facilitated the resources of the fire army: “We are still waiting,” he lamented.
Corted roads and trains
Thirteen Spanish roads, two of them national, are still cut this Sunday because of forest fires, the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) has reported. The two affected national roads are in Castilla-León the N-621, between Portilla de la Reina (León) and Varjo (Cantabria); and in Galicia the N-525, between Guimarei and As I stowed (Ourense). The rest of the affected roads are secondary from Asturias, León, Zamora, Cáceres and Ourense.
The high speed Madrid-Galicia will continue to cut up at least until noon, EFE reports
Source: www.eldiario.es
