The strong gusts of complican wind of the towns of Paüls, Alfara de Carles, Xerta, Aldover and Tivenys (Tarragona) and specifically, the wind has reached up to 90 kilometers per hour last night, a fact that has forced to expand the confinement zone to the neighborhood of the Tortosa Regues that is added to towns, the bite and Jesus already Aldover, Alfara de Carles, Paüls, Xerta, Pinell de Brai, Prat de Comte, Tivenys and Roquetes (Tarragona), firefighters have reported. The wind is expected to get off early in the afternoon, Núria Parlon, Interior Minister of the Generalitat, reported Tuesday. “There are still critical hours and we maintain confinement. It is time to ask citizens prudence,” said the Catalan counselor. The fire of the fire has arrived during the past morning in large areas of the province of Alicante, about 400 kilometers away.
The priority of firefighters is to prevent the fire from crossing the Ebro river. About 300 firefighters work on the ground, to which a hundred members of the UME have joined. In addition, they have 12 aerial media, two Foca aircraft from the Ministry of Ecological Transition, and a Water Bomber the UME. “The population has the feeling that the fire has it. There is a lot of feeling of insecurity,” explained Fire Chief David Borrell, on the work they are also carrying out to reassure the residents of the area, where specific evacuations have also been carried out. At two in the afternoon, they hope that between marinated wind, that allows them to improve the conditions to control the fire.
The Generalitat Firefighters have activated the level of mobilization 2 (m2) tonight, which implies an extraordinary mobilization of free guard personnel in the face of the fire progress. The incorporation of these staff is mandatory and the troops must be presented in their parks as soon as possible, the Generalitat Fire Department has reported. For its part, the Generalitat requested yesterday helps to the Emergency Military Unit (UME) in the face of the “Behavior Worsening” of the forest fire. That the wind, with 90 -kilometer gusts per hour in the highest levels, makes the stabilization of fire difficult, so, at the request of the Generalitat Firefighters, the collaboration of the UME troops to work in its extinction has been requested. “My thanks to all emergency bodies and services for your tireless work,” said Illa, which has asked the troops to be found in the extinction tasks “maximum caution.” He president This noon on the field and the Interior Minister, Núria Parlon, has not participated in the Consell Executiu meeting to follow the fire containment development. “We face sixth generation fires,” said Government spokeswoman Sílvia Paneque, who has assured that the health services “are guaranteed” for the entire affected population.
On the ground, the “the fire has been moving forward at night towards neighboring populations. We are living it with great anguish, you see what is in front of it. The important thing is to get the information by official channels and that people avoid displacements because the fire can change very fast, a lot of wind and we have no coverage.”
The fire that began on Monday in Les Terres de l’Ebre, in Tarragona, is very different from that last week caused two dead in Lleida. “That was fundamentally agricultural, very fast,” said Borrell. Tarragona also generated a pyrocumulus at the beginning, but driven by the wind. “It behaves differently,” added Borrell, on a fire that affects forest mass, and that technically address “very different.”
