A fire in the La Peña de Tarifa (Cádiz) place has forced to evict campsiteschiringuitos and hotels already evacuate more than 5,000 vehicles. The N-340 road has already been reopened, which remained closed between kilometers 71 and 80, although the Forest Fire Extinction Agency has warned that the road is only open to traffic, that is, access to the evicted areas is not yet allowed. The fire originated around 16.13 when burning a motorhome near the area of the camping Peña Torre, due to circumstances that are unknown, and spread rapidly due to wind speed.
The counselor of the Presidency of the Junta de Andalucía, Antonio Sanz, stressed that “the main objective is to control and extinguish the southern zone, which is attached to the road, where there are more hotels and homes”, although the device also works on the right flank of the flames, which advances towards an agricultural area. Punta Sur hotels, La Torre, three seas, 100% FUN, Copacabana, Sweet Name have been affected by the eviction, as well as the campsites of Valdevaqueros, Paloma Baja, Casa Porro, Hotel Guagua and the Torre de la Peña itself, where the fire originated, in addition to the beach bars of the tombo and the tangana.
A total of 17 aerial media works in the extinction of fire, the “maximum device deployed in record time,” said Sanz in the advanced command post next to the flames. In addition, in collaboration with the Fire Extinction and Prevention Device of the Junta de Andalucía (Infoca Plan), two forest fire reinforcement brigades (Brica) have move Benalup and the neighborhoods.
🔴 (Cádiz), active. OPERATIVE SITUATION 1.
🚁👨🚒 The air media flatten the flames to facilitate the work of land equipment.
A total of 17 aircraft and a hundred troops work on fire stabilization.
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The Junta de Andalucía has opened two points of information and attention to the public, especially to respond to the situation of the evicted people and those that must be relocated. Based on the fact that they could be trapped on either side of the flames, the information points have been enabled in the La Marina Sports Pavilion, at the entrance of rate; And in the facin district, where the infoca ship is located. The device is currently struggling against fire, in a situation that the Minister of the Presidency has described as “complex.”
The UME collaborates in the extinction of another fire in A Coruña
In parallel, the residents of the Parish of Corme Aldea, in the municipality of Ponteceso, have also been evicted by a fire. This has reported the Civil Guard, which explains that the fire has forced to cut the AC-424 regional road. In the extinction tasks, 10 brigades, 9 motobombs, 7 agents, 2 shovels, a technician and 3 technical support units participate. In addition, 2 planes have just been incorporated into extinction work, which are operating in the area despite the fact that weather conditions are not favorable for aerial means. The Government has offered the Xunta the deployment of the Military Emergency Unit, which is also participating in the extinction of fire.
In recent days, Ponteceso (5,300 inhabitants) has suffered several fires that have calcined more than 500 hectares. The one of the Cospindo parish has been extinguished (245 hectares), while those of Bantuas (170 hectares), Graña (about 100 hectares) and CORES, also started in the last hours are stabilized. Near there is an active forest fire in Camariñas, in the parish of Xaviña, where level 2 was decreed as a preventive measure for its proximity to Pedrouso.
The mayor of Ponteceso, José Manuel Mato, has reported that the situation “is very dangerous” and for the moment he does not know how many neighbors have had to be evicted due to the danger of the fire. The Xunta has reported through its social networks of level 3 activation by proximity to homes. For its part, the Government Subdelegate in A Coruña, María Rivas, has made available to the Xunta “all the necessary means” for the extinction of the risk for houses, including the UM.
Rivas explains that he is in contact with the mayor and the Civil Guard, in addition to offering “coordination and absolute commitment”. At the same time, the Ministry of Rural Affairs has reported a fire in the municipality of Mondariz (Pontevedra), Parish of Riofrío, which burns more than 20 hectares.
