The flames attack this Tuesday in two different communities, one in southern Ávila (Castilla y León) and another in the town of Caminomorisco, in the region of Las Hurdes (Extremadura), where they have been evicted between 120 and 130 residents of six alquerías. The first fire, level 2, unleashed on Monday afternoon and affects the surroundings of Cuevas del Valle. Several firefighters claim that strong winds are complicating the tasks in an area that already burned in 2009 and that is “dirty”, full of fuel, which burns very easily. The units of the Junta de Castilla y León have joined reinforcement brigades of the Ministry of Ecological Transition come from Ávila and Toledo herself and a battalion of the Emergency Military Unit arrived from Madrid. In Extremadura, the Board has also launched the operating situation two of the two and has also received the help of the UME. The flames specifically affect the farm farm, in the term of walking and is the first summer fire in the Extremadura region that needs this level of risk to be activated.
For now, both fires are without controlling. In Ávila, a 60 -year -old firefighter has died, according to body sources, when he went to the device last night covering a decline, because that day he did not have to work. “They warned him to join a Charly [vehículo de bomberos] And he had to leave when he went to his job, he did not appear in his post and have found him this morning, ”reports one of his guild classmates. The 112 of Castilla y León has reported early an accident in El Hornillo (Ávila) with a deceased when his car’s car left, in the case of firefighters, his colleague by profession.
The technical director of the fire, Ángel Iglesias, has reported that advanced in Ávila has managed to perimeter the space of fire. “We are working on the perimeter control,” he said, by limiting roads, tracks, roads and ways to reduce the advance of fire, which is not stabilized. The danger of danger has been reduced with respect to what is estimated in the morning, he reported, although the forecast is to increase the wind and change his address: “We are going to have difficulties in the southern zone, on the left flank, with personnel doing anchor work. I hope to arrive in time before the wind can push the flames out of that perimeter.” The head, he pointed out, is still active, but is reluctant to control it. “We are relatively optimistic,” he said, and estimates that topography, fuel and wind can join and assume the greatest difficulty.
A neighbor of El Arenal (Ávila) says that in the town they are starting to worry and do not rule out a prompt evacuation of the town. As an example, they tell that the deceased firefighter, Emilio Sánchez Casado, was being veiled in the town’s tanatorio and has had to be transferred to Arenas de San Pedro
José Francisco Hernández, territorial delegate of the Junta de Castilla y León in Ávila, has reported that the flames began at 11 at night and that he reached level 2 when he was near Mombeltrán and that he cut the national road that crosses it. The high position has informed of a “high land deployment”, unable to fly the aerial media, which have protected the environments of the people, their farms and private goods. “A partial confinement was ordered that has not yet been raised,” he said, thanking the work of professionals between the wind and the abrupt terrain that has allowed “perimetering throughout the day” with the aerial media. “There is a lot of work to avoid forest mass, since the urban has been isolated,” he said.
Tonight has mobilized to collaborate in the extinction of the fire that affects a place of enormous wealth.
We are very aware of the evolution of this fire in Mombeltrán and several municipalities of the Barranco de las Cinco Villas in Ávila.
A lot of caution.
– Pedro Sánchez (@sánchezCastejon)
The characteristics of the fire, according to the brigades, suggest that it could be caused to judge where the flames and the point and time of the beginning of the fire began, with a very high wind, forecasts of strong gusts and a highly sensitive environment. Specialists affect the huge surrounding vegetation and how the strong wind and smoke allied to continue discarding the land and encouraging more ability to burn.
Eva Jiménez, 27 years old and a neighbor of the area, explains that “the mountain is not clean, there are few pine trees and there is a lot of return”, hence the important winds have driven the fire to consume that material so flammable. The neighborhood has spent the night preparing snacks and water for seals and volunteers collaborating in protecting the urban nucleus. In the morning, he says, you see how the flames have moved away from the urban area. Just as firefighters suspect, “the general belief in the area is that it is caused, at night, with the wind that made, and just 16 years after the other.” Some friends from Jiménez, he says, “suddenly they saw how an explosion and very high flames.” On July 28, 2009, a fire caused the area, where two people died, while now a firefighter who headed for extinction work has already died.
Extremadura also asks the UME for help
The Board of Extremadura has reported that after the emergency meeting that was held near midnight between the different operational controls deployed in the area it has been decided to evacuate more alquerías in Las Hurdes. There are already six evicted population nuclei, in total between 120 and 130 neighbors who are staying in family homes or in the walking residence.
The Minister of Presidency, Interior and Social Dialogue, Abel Bautista, has reported that 150 troops are working in the area, to which the UME is being incorporated and that it is not ruled out throughout the morning to evict more populations. “This is a very complicated fire because we have a flush, changing wind, that if at first it was ascending, it is now descending in the valley and, therefore, has forced to agree to evict new populations. The situation map will change during the night, you can take measures little by little as we analyze the situation,” the regional leader transferred.
According to the Regional Administration, the Forest Fire Fight Plan of Extremadura (INFOEX) has 94 troops, in particular work 14 forest fire units, seven aerial media, three heavy machinery equipment, two natural environment agents, seven extinction technicians, meteco troops and firefighters of the Diputación de Cáceres, Civil Guard and Red Cross, in addition to Civil Protection technicians, in addition to civil protection technicians.
The Minister of the Presidency, Interior and Social Dialogue of the Board of Extremadura, Abel Bautista has reported that the activation of this level two implies that they have “requested means to the State, specifically the activation of the Emergency Military Unit (UME) to help in the extinction device.” “Likewise, I have to report that the Junta de Andalucía has made its media available and specifically at this time two aerial media leave for the fire, two amphibians will move to the fire,” said the Extremadura.
Shortly after, a UME team has left its Base of Torrejón de Ardoz in the Community of Madrid to join the extinction work in Cáceres.
From the Regional Administration they affect the apparatus of the forest fire: “We are working to protect people, goods and the environment and priority is to maintain security and reduce the impact of this emergency. So we ask that the recommendations of the authorities be followed,” Baptist moved.
