SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 19 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Advisory Committee of the Insular Emergency Plan of La Palma (Peinpal) has agreed today, Monday, in its 67th session, to maintain the closure of the neighborhoods of Puerto Naos and La Bombilla due to the concentration of lethal gases of carbon dioxide (CO2 ).
The acting president of the Cabildo de La Palma, Mariano Zapata, has indicated that the data for the last month “does not indicate that we can be optimistic” and added that if there were any kind of trend “it would be upwards” because “every time there is a greater gas concentration.
The Peinpal session also addressed the situation of the interior sensors, installed by the National Geographic Institute (IGN) and the Canary Islands Volcanological Institute (Involcan), which continue “giving problems and failures” in the Los Lajones area, due to which is going to proceed to its replacement and it is expected that from next week it will be possible to access this area normally, said Mariano Zapata.
Likewise, he indicated that progress is being made on the paving of the road between La Laguna and Las Norias and that five banana plantations located on the edges of the lava flows have been withdrawn from the decree of exclusion zones and whose owners have presented the pertinent temperature studies. , for which “steps continue to be taken”.
Finally, the president of the Cabildo reported that a total of 106 people are still staying in hotels, of which ten families have already been awarded a home by ICAVI and in the coming weeks they will be leaving the hotel to be able to occupy them.
