SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Jan. 20 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Tenerife Fire Prevention and Extinction and Rescue Consortium declared the fire at the composting plant located in the Parque La Reina area, in the municipality of Arona, which started last Thursday, January 11, extinguished yesterday Friday. as reported by the Tenerife Cabildo.
The troops have worked uninterruptedly since the start of the fire, which has affected about 3.5 hectares of plant material. From now on, the owner company must maintain 24-hour surveillance of the entire plant to warn of significant emissions or combustion.
Any possible interventions that the area may require will be attended to by the San Miguel Fire Station, which will coordinate its interventions with the owner company to be able to have an excavator shovel or backhoe to remove the material and extinguish it.
The members of the Fire Consortium decided to sectorize the fire in order to resolve the situation satisfactorily. Thus, three sectors were established: one of them with piles of wood – mostly from wooden pallets without chemical treatment – and another two with piles of a mixture of crushed wood from the previous piles and green material (agricultural and gardening).
In this way, the aerial and ground means have proceeded to cool them with water discharges during these days to be able to extract the material with heavy machinery (shovels) and be able to finish it outside.
In the extinction work, the members of the Tenerife Fire Prevention and Extinction and Rescue Consortium (Professional Firefighters, volunteers and coordination technicians) have been coordinated; Cabildo of Tenerife, through the Forestry Brigades and the Natural Environment and Balsas de Tenerife (Balten) staff; Government of the Canary Islands (Civil Protection, GES Helicopters and ground personnel and CECOES-112); Arona City Council (with special intervention from the Local Police), Civil Guard (TEDAX and NRBQ) and SUNA 2000 – RR GESPACKING, company that owns the damaged facility.
