The forest fires of Cures, in Boiro (A Coruña)and in the Avila municipality of Holy Cross of the Valley are still active and are the most worrying in a day in which it has been possible to stabilize the Mats from Medinaceli, Soria, and Jódar, in Jaén.
The hectares burned by the Cures forest fire, in Boiro (A Coruña), have risen to 2,000according to the latest updated data provided by the Consellería do Medio Rural
Situation two remains there, a preventive measure decreed due to the proximity of the flames to the core of Piñeiro.
Adjoining municipalities, such as those of Ribeira, where in Oleiros 700 people were evicted from the Ría de Arosa campsite, and A Pobra have been affected by the spread.
Another of the fires that has grown in burnt area is that of Xustáns, in Ponte Caldelas, which has gone from 150 devastated hectares to 300. It is the other important fire in Galicia with alert level 2 due to its proximity to houses. The one in Verín (Ourense) has been stabilized.
“Everything that can go wrong, goes wrong”
In the Avila municipality of Holy Cross of the Valley (350 inhabitants), the aerial means of extinguishing the fire have gone from nineteen to a total of twenty-six, which are part of a large device that exceeds 400 people.
The technical director of extinction of the device managed by the Junta de Castilla y León, Carlos Mendiguchía, has indicated that “everything that can go wrong, is going wrong” this Saturday.
As reported by the Junta de Castilla y León, the right flank of this fire in the south of the province of Ávila, in the Valle del Tiétar region, “continues to be the most active.”
The human and aerial means fight against a fire whose high temperatures and the complicated topography of the area is hindering its extinction.
This fire has been declared level 2 on a scale of danger from 0 to 3 by the Junta de Castilla y León, given the possible effect on the population, although the night has passed “without incident” and for the moment it has not been necessary to evacuate any town”.
The fire was declared at 4:18 p.m. on Friday in this municipality of Barranco de las Cinco Villas, in the Tiétar Valley region of Avila, south of the province of Ávila, about 70 kilometers from the capital.
Best perspective in Soria
In Esteras de Medinaceli, in the Jalón valley, in the south of the province of Soria, the news is better. fire fighting services have stabilized the fire declared this Saturday around 12:30 p.m., sources from the Junta de Castilla y León reported.
Apparently, the fire has broken out on the Madrid-Zaragoza highway (A-2), when a car has burned and some spark has jumped to the gutter. At the moment, the devastated surface is unknown, which has affected cereal stubble.
Air and land resources have moved during the day to the area to douse the flames, whose reach is still in perimeter.
Also that of Jodar (Jaen) It has been stabilized by members of the Infoca Plan, who continue to work for its definitive control.
The fire declared this Thursday has been stabilized at 7:10 am this Saturday morning; it has been done a drone reconnaissance flight to support the extinction management in decision making.
The area covered by the fire has been 650 hectares of pine forest and scrub, with different degrees of affection; Everything indicates that the origin of the fire may be due to natural causes, in the storms registered in the area with an electrical charge, although it will be the report of the Forest Fire Investigation Brigade that determines it.
For their part, the Fire Brigade of the Generalitat have managed to control the forest and vegetation fires declared in the terms of Lladurs (Lleida) and of Tivissa (Tarragona)caused by thunderstorms on Friday.
Both this Saturday and Sunday, the fire risk map on the peninsula and the Balearic Islands is, at many points, in orange (very high risk) and in red (extreme); Gran Canaria, Tenerife and La Palma also appear in these colors, according to the Aemet website.