The high temperatures, even exceeding 40 degrees, together with the humidity and vegetable fuel that feeds the flames and the difficult orography are cgreatly complicating extinction of the fire declared on Friday afternoon in a pine forest area of the town of Santa Cruz del Valle in Avila.
Two days after the ignition began, around 4:15 p.m. on Friday, which according to the first indications indicates that it was intentional, the fire continues to advance without the extensive device deployed being able to control it and continues to advance, although it does so slowly. More than 500 people They work this Sunday afternoon in the Tiétar Valley area to try to stop the advance of the flames. And one thirty aerial meansbetween helicopters and airplanes, they fight the fire from the air, although the high temperatures even cause the discharges of water to evaporate even before reaching the ground.
On the afternoon of this Sunday, the advance of the fire and its dense column of smoke have forced the AV-922 provincial highway court from Pedro Bernardo to the port of the municipality.
The conditions to work and contain the flames “are very unfavorable” due to the orography, fuel and temperatures that cause there to be “constant jumps”, has recognized in statements collected by Ep the technical director of extinction of the operation of the Board in the fire, Ángel Iglesias. “The spread is what worries because there were fronts that were more or less stabilized and have reproduced again,” he added.
The device is made up of personnel from the firefighting service of the Junta de Castilla y León, the Military Emergency Unit (UME), the Ministry for Ecological Transition, as well as from other communities.
The fire is at risk level 2 -on an ascending scale from 0 to 3- since late Friday, when the Junta de Castilla y León decided to raise the alert for possible affection to populations. However, for the moment, no locality has had to be evicted.