The fire that has already affects the 2,800 hectares after entering this Sunday in Castilla y León. The wind complicated the extinction work at dawn on Saturday on the north flank, forcing to evict about 200 residents of the Segovian town of Riofrío de Riaza and the La Pinilla urbanization, on the border with the province of Guadalajara, which continues to agglutinate the majority of the affected surface. The fire is still out of control despite the efforts of the earth and air extinction teams. A twenty aircraft fly over the area this Sunday to try to and facilitate the work of the equipment on land, in a fire with unevenness of up to 90%.
With the fire already affecting the province of Segovia, the communities of Castilla-La Mancha and Castilla y León have formed a unique control of the fire, still under the direction of the Castellanomanchego executive. The rain that this Sunday falls in the area, due to the entrance of Borrasca Gabrielle in the Peninsula, is taking a respite to the extinction teams after seven days of incessant struggle against fire in a device composed of media of Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla y León and the Community of Madrid, supported by those deployed by the Ministry for the Ecological Transition (MITECO) and the Military Unit of Emergencies (Ume).
“We have to continue strengthening the perimeter and take advantage of the window that gives us the rain,” explained the Deputy Minister of the Environment of Castilla-La Mancha, José Almodóvar, from the advanced command post. It is the main obstacle that teams face on land. “We have opened accesses so that the pumps can reach the possible and can deploy their manual and hose laying tools,” a work that was done in the first days of the fire, has detailed Almodóvar, which also points to vegetation as another factor that slows the extinction.
“It is a very complex topography, with piornos and heather that burn very fast and very easily, and that is what the fire line would jump yesterday.” Explain. “The rain is going to turn off the most active fronts, but it can help in the least intense,” he continues. “We cannot forget the incandescent combustion in the stumps and the mulch, where the rain does not penetrate,” said Juanjo Fernández, emergency director.
The incursion of the fire in the province of Segovia, where 400 hectares have already burned, has forced, according to Almodóvar, “to redistribute the media” and to make an “extraordinary” request to the miteco to mobilize more helitransported brigades. Only in the area of Castilla-La Mancha, the Deputy Minister said, about 300 troops work this Sunday.
“We have increased the deployment and the idea is to work hard in the east zone with the help of the UME, with the terrestrial brigades and the heavy machinery,” he said. Some of the helitransported brigades of Miteco and Castilla-La Mancha work already in the Segovian part and it is watched that the flames do not cross the road of the port of the quesera and the affected surface is further firing.
Three evacuated populations
The fire, which entered the community of Castilla y León through the town of Cerezo above, keeps the residents of Riofrío de Riaza out of their homes, which these days celebrated its parties, after the evacuation last night of the La Pinilla urbanization. Only a few have had to be realized in the Pavilion Sports Pavilion of Riaza, which already welcomes some of the members of the UME displaced to the fire.
“At two in the morning we were forced to make the first eviction, the urbanization of the Pinilla, which was very fast because it was mostly, of,” explained Raquel Alonso, delegate of the Junta de Castilla y León in Segovia. In the case of Riofrío, he has detailed, “many of the people were passing through and have been very orderly, to their homes.”
The Executive of Castilla-La Mancha keeps the Cores of Peñalba de la Sierra and place, with about ten neighbors, although this afternoon they could return to their homes. “That is our scenario, revalue the situation and that, with a little luck, they can return to their homes with the commitment to avoid unnecessary displacements,” Almodóvar clarified. What will remain closed is access to the Hayedo de Tejera Negra, a very visited natural enclave in autumn.
Both communities have sent several alerts asking neighbors, tourists and hikers to stay away from the perimeter of the fire to facilitate the work of the equipment. This Saturday, the Sierra Norte de Guadalajara was a hotbed of tourists and hikers and.
