Active fire in the Monfragüe National Park, in the municipality of Deleitosa (Cáceres), Spain. photo EFE
The fire continues to devastate thousands of hectares in Spain in forest fires from one end of the country to the other, which keep rural populations in suspense while an important bomb with the support of the Army tries to put out the flames, in the midst of a heat wave that keeps the thermometer above 40 degrees centimeters.
Some fires have been active for days, like the one since last Monday burned about 9,000 hectares in Monsagro (northwest), where weather conditions make firefighting work difficult and on this day the wind forced the firefighting aircraft to retreat, according to emergency services sources.
The region in which this area is located, Castilla y León, recorded 165 fires in the last week.
The proximity of the flames makes it necessary to evacuate rural centers in different parts of the country, in cases such as Candeda in the region of Galicia (north-west), where the fire has burned some housesin addition to destroying about 1,100 hectares.
An area calcined by flames in the forest fire declared in the municipality of Carballeda de Valdeorras in Ourense. photo EFE
The Military Emergency Unit collaborates in the work to extinguish several fires in this region, where forest fires add up 4,430 hectares burned in recent days.
critical hours
At the other end of the country, in Catalonia (northeast), a similar situation occurs in cities such as El Pont de Vilomara, where the fire burned at least 440 hectares of forest, including a natural park, and forced the evacuation of houses closest to calls.
The emergency services asked neighbors to go to the center of built-up areas, with a “general block” so that they do not leave their homes due to the proximity of the fire, with a reception center set up for those who need to be evacuated.
Other fires show a somewhat better evolution, such as that of the Sierra de Mijas in southern Spain, where many of the 3,000 evicted have been able to return to their homes, although two sports pavilions are still set up as shelters with support from the Red Cross. .
The authorities, however, ask for caution, because the firefighters face the “most critical” hours. due to rising temperatures, in this area where the fire has covered a perimeter of 1,890 hectares since last Friday.
The people responsible for fighting the fire denounce it Some of these fires are causedlike the one declared last night in the Garganta de los Infiernos (east).
evacuations
In the Extramadura region alone, where this natural area is located, the fire has burned about 6,000 hectares in recent days, in areas such as the Monfragüe National Park, one of the main natural spaces in Spain.
The Galician community is experiencing another day of firefighting. photo EFE
More than seven hundred residents have been evacuated from ten towns and some have been away from home for seven days.
The president of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez, plans to travel to Extremadura this Monday visit the affected areas and check the fire extinguishing works on the ground.
The heat wave that almost the whole country undergoes after the entry of a mass of hot air from the Sahara starts in its maximum of the eighth day above 40 degrees in various parts of Spain.
This Sunday the phenomenon involved three regions in the north of the country red alert for “extreme risk” of heat and another ten in warning for “significant risk”.
Temperatures across most of the country hovered around 40 degrees this weekend, and for this Sunday the State Meteorological Agency has predicted that reaches 43 points in Extremadura.
As this entity moved to EFE, specialists predict that the heatwave will have brief relief on Tuesday, although a new rise in temperatures is likely to begin on Wednesday, with the potential continuation of this episode already being considered. ” length”. “.
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