The overturning of an embillum in the spiny of Compludo, a town belonging to the municipality of Ponferrada, has caused this Sunday the death of a man, while another has been injured, as confirmed by the EFE agency. The deceased, 57 years old and born in Ourense, belonged to Soria extinction teams based on Garray.
The tragic event occurred in the middle of the wave of forest fires that hit the province of León, where two other men died this week: Abel Ramos and Jaime Aparicio, volunteers who participated in the work to stop the fire that entered from Zamora to the south of the province of León.
Sources consulted by the ICAL agency indicated that it is a worker who was part of the support troops from another province of the community, in this case to help contain the Yeres Fire, which fully affected the World Médulas Heritage Site.
The accident occurred at around 10.30 pm when the convoy that this vehicle was integrated was withdrawing from the fire to rest through a strong slope forest track in the spiny area of complicudo. For some cause that is unknown, the vehicle approached the slope and overturned, falling on a slope of strong development, reports the Junta de Castilla y León.
Worker of the Junta de Castilla y León (Officer of Montes-Bolk Machinist Machinist), he was a driver of the pombic located in Bayubas below since July 2010, reports the Iical Agency. The deceased was part of the convoy that departed from Soria on the afternoon of last Saturday, with a total of 22 forest workers, towards the place of the fire, integrating into the infocal operation. At this time the return of the aforementioned convoy, which will occur throughout this Monday is being organized.
The driver was deceased. And the pawn has been mildly injured and has been transferred to the El Bierzo hospital, where tests have been performed and a non -displaced fracture of vertebral process has been detected, although it does not require intervention and this Monday has already been discharged.
The president of the Board, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, said in the social network X his “most condolences and all the love of her family, friends and colleagues.”
The regional executive also wants to “highlight and deeply thank the commitment, delivery and vocation of service of all personnel who are part of the infocal operation, as well as the support teams that collaborate in this arduous work.”
It is a tragic final for a black Sunday for the province of León, where the fire has entered the Picos de Europa National Park, there are already nine fires at level 2 of danger and 62 the evicted locations.
