The CSIF union has denounced on Monday that the Junta de Castilla y León has changed the criteria. The controversy has arisen after knowing that of the nine level 2 fires that were in León on Sunday, five has been skipped. Agustín Argulo, fire technician and president of the general administration sector of the Board of this union, said Monday that the measure is a “recklessness” and has been taken without consulting the specialists. “It has been decided to reduce the level when the proposal is done by the technicians and it has not been done,” he said. Environment has attributed the change to which before and has decided to unify as level 1 those fires in which there are no evicted populations or the realos have already occurred and that they also did not have cut communication routes.
The union representative has lamented that from one day to another they saw through the open fire tracking portal of the Board that the fires of Gestoso, Llamas de Cabrera, Barniedo de la Reina and Anllares del Sil had passed at level 1 over a maximum of 3 when on Sunday they were in status 2. Argulo defends that this descent should be executed when there is “the controlled perimeter to avoid reproductions”. “We have to be sure that the land is cold, and then the proposal is made.”
The Autonomous Environment area has issued a subsequent statement to the words of the union to explain this change in criteria. The coordination body has proposed to establish “common criteria and act according to them according to the Autonomous Plan”. “All technical directors of extinction have been consulted or proposed the evacuations, confinements and realos, as well as the opening and closing of communication routes,” says the statement. For CSIF spokesman, these decisions are “contrary to technicians” and.
