The heat wave leaves the first of the summer in the Community of Madrid, although luckily there has not to regret personal or natural damage, since grass has mainly burned. On Sunday night the flames began in the municipality of Villa del Prado and extended rapidly, which forced two urbanizations to confine a third. At this time, the fire is in the process of control and firefighters work to quell it completely in the next few hours.
Up to 25 endowments have worked from Sunday night and continue in the early hours of this Monday to control and extinguish this forest fire. “The control and extinction tasks of the fire are being very difficult due to the strong wind that has been blowing throughout the night in the area,” explained the spokeswoman for the 112 emergency service of the Community of Madrid, Encarna Fernández.
Two urbanizations of the municipality have had to be evacuated and another, that of Las Hoyas, confined following the fire, but the latter only preventively. The flames have also affected the M-540 road. “Firefighters have avoided affecting nearby houses, but the north direction has spread the fire affecting Pasto and Jara and agricultural facilities, such as a barley and livestock, such as a horsepower,” they specify since 112.
The fire has been declared within the operational situation 1 within the Special Civil Protection Plan for forest fires, this is the second level of gravity of the existing four. However, the fire “has affected vegetation, grass and jara, fundamentally, but also to some agricultural and livestock installation,” the spokeswoman insisted.
The emergency services of the Community of Madrid have installed an advanced command post in the sports center of Villa del Prado, in order to finally control the fire, which have already perimeted and whose control is expected on Monday morning. In addition, the 112 services themselves, firefighters from the Community of Madrid plan to extinguish it completely with the arrival of air media.
. Tonight a forest fire has been declared in the municipality of Villa del Prado, which has spread with speed due to the strong wind that blows in the area.
Up to 25 endowments are working to control their progress.
– 112 Community of Madrid (@112cmadrid)
