The Ministry of Environment of the Council of Gran Canaria, specifically, the staff of the Forest Fires Operational Unit together with 60 members of the Military Emergency Units (UME) from Tenerife and Gran Canaria, as well as another 35 from the rest of the State who are taking part in a course at the National School of Civil Protection, are immersed in several training days, aimed at training those responsible for fighting forest fires at the same time as to perform prevention workby cleaning the most sensitive areas and creating firewalls, as reported by the island government.
These operations are part of the campaign to prescribed burns carried out by the Insular Corporation, which is part of a General Burning Plan which, in turn, is part of a Project for Preventive Forestryand whose objectives are to provide Gran Canaria with strategic enclaves that are clean and treated by prescribed fire, so that the Island is better prepared for possible forest fires.
Throughout the day on Tuesday, a fire drill was carried out in San Jose del Alamoin Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, where the pine forest and some areas located around the recreational area were cleaned, in order to prevent fires that may occur in the area from leaving it or, on the contrary, from entering fires that break out.
In turn, during last Sunday and yesterday, Monday, similar tasks were carried out in the area of The Moorsin the municipality of Ingenio, where three small plots were treated, with the same preventive and training purposes.
Specifically, on Sunday half a hectare was operated and on Monday on two surfaces of another two hectares, with the purpose of defending its own telecommunications and telephone facilities, as well as the Aemet radar that are in the area. , so that, in the event of a fire, they are not affected, as was the case in 2019, when the fires of Artenara and Valleseco they hardly damaged them, since the ground had been prepared for that defense.
