“There is sufficient operation. If we need it, collaboration is requested to other provinces, other autonomous communities and the Army of Spain through the Emergency Military Unit (UME).” This was expressed by the president of Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, on August 13. By then, the natural place of Las Médulas, in León, had been burning for four days. The first day had produced the first deadly victim among the volunteers fighting against the one confirmed as the worst wave of forest fires recorded in Spain. Two weeks later, the entire PP attempts to rebuild the story and blame the central government of not having previously assumed the work of the autonomous competences.
On August 13, Alberto Núñez Feijóo visited Galicia, where the fire was already razing the province of Ourense. The leader of the PP, who already made the fires an opposition weapon two decades ago, spoke of “incendiary terrorism” to point out the impossibility of anticipating the magnitude of the tragedy that, still then, did not count the subsequent figures.
