The fires most virulent declared in Castile and Leon Y Tenerife have passed the stabilization phasealthough the cooling work continues to contain the perimeter and prevent them from being reactivated, and in the case of the canary fire, that it does not damage the Teide National Park.
The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaskahas moved to the advanced command post located between the Burgos towns of Santibáñez del Val and Santo Domingo de Silos, where one of the most devastating fires has devastated more than 3,500 hectaresalthough it is already without a flame and in several towns this Monday they have already begun to return to their homes.
Among them, four of the monks evicted from the monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos, who have decided to return assuring that they will not move from there.
The flames have been put out in Vegalatrave (Zamora), very close to the fire registered last week in Losaciowhich has also allowed the return of residents and vacationers evicted in six municipalities of the Tierra de Alba region.
Nevertheless, Castilla y León continues this Monday to be one of the communities most affected by the fires, already without flames in the provinces of Burgos, Ávila and Zamora, the first caused by the use of machinery at a time when it was prohibited and the last two intentional, according to indications.
For the Minister of the Interior, most of the fires in these weeks are related to the two heat waves and electrical storms and has pointed out that more than 160,000 hectares have already been burned in Spain so far this year, more double that of last year.
After the Junta de Castilla y León aim for “environmental fads” and “conservation philosophy” As the cause of the fires, Maslaska has asserted that climate change is “decisive”, something that is “obvious” and that no specialist disputes.
From Environment, the Secretary of State, Hugo Morán, has demanded unity and flee from high-sounding words in front of the firesin relation to those statements made by the director of the Junta de Castilla y León, Juan Carlos Suárez-Quiñones.
The Defense Minister, Margaret Oakshas asked the regional governments this Monday, especially that of Castilla y León, not to haggle “neither in the media nor in personnel” when it comes to preventing fires, since that is their responsibility.
Robles has visited the Military Emergency Unit (UME) at the Torrejón Air Base, to learn about the evolution of the Army’s campaign against forest fires, which runs from June 15 to September 30.
The Junta de Castilla y León, for its part, has appealed to the collaboration of citizens and the Civil Guard to arrest those who have provoked the last fires in Ávila and Zamora and that have set fire “in such a terrible and terrorist way”.
The fire that started last Thursday in the north of Tenerife, and that was probably intentional, has entered a stabilization phase, although it does not mean that it cannot be revived, as the president of the Canary Islands pointed out this Monday, Angel Victor Torresafter the technical coordination meeting of the means of extinction.
The fire may be contained on its western slope, that of the Teide National Park, and efforts are focused on protecting the flora and vegetation of this place, has indicated the president of the Cabildo, Pedro Martín.
Also, it will delimit a protection distance of about 1.5 kilometers from “hot spots” that still persist in the Tigaiga mountain so that an important part of the people who have been evicted can return to their homes in the next few hours.
It is hoped that the number of affected hectares will not increase, some 2,700, nor the perimeter, 27 kilometers, although the fire is still at alert level 2.
A extensive device of units of the Fire Service of Navarre works to try to control the fire declared in the early hours of the afternoon in the municipality of Carcastillo, with the support of aerial means sent by the State after level 2 was activated.
Local residents work with their tractors to open firebreaks and Provincial Police and Civil Guard agents monitor and order traffic in the area affected by the fire, which has forced the NA-178 road to be closed.
The only two forest fires that are still active in Galicia they are in O Courel (Lugo) and are those of Folgoso-A Pobra do Brollón, which remains at 10,000 hectares burned, and that of Folgoso-Seceda, which continues at 1,100.
The Outeiro fire, in the Lugo town of Quiroga, has been controlled; that of Carballeda, with 10,500 devastated hectares, and that of Rabal, in Oímbra, after 2,100 hectares burned.
In Ourense, the Vilariño de Conso fire has been stabilizedwhich affects the Invernadeiro Natural Park and has destroyed 6,500 hectares.
In Valenciatwelve aerial means work to try to suffocate the forest fire declared in the middle of the afternoon in the municipality of Callesin the interior of the province, a fire that, due to its evolution, has forced to establish situation 2 and severity index 2 of the Special Plan Against the Risk of Forest Fires (PEIF) of the Generalitat Valenciana.
Also late in the afternoon, in Granada, Infoca’s aerial and ground resources worked to extinguish a forest fire that had broken out in an area of Pinos Puente (Granada).
Members of the Castilla-La Mancha Fire Extinguishing Service focus their work on preventing the forest fire that is active in the Las Lagunas de Ruidera Natural Park, in the province of Ciudad Real, from affecting the ‘Los Villares’ urbanization ‘.
