The forest fires in Castilla y León maintain a positive evolution but very conditioned by the wind, with strong gusts and changes of direction that have caused in the last hours reproductions that have complicated the work of extinction in León and Zamora, with new evictions, and Palencia, where one of the fires has passed to Cantabria.
At this time, in the community there are assets 18 fires, of which, 10 are serious: there are five potential gravity index fires – the maximum – in Fasgar, Igüeña, La Baña and Garaño, in León, and in Porto, in Zamora; And five more level 1 in Anllares del Sil, Llamas de Cabrera, Barniedo de la Reina and Gestoso, in León, and Cardaño de Arriba, in Palencia. However, the Board has decided to unify the fires of the bathe IFPortoThey are separated by statistical demands nationwide. It affects León and Zamora with unified command. ”Each of these two fires was declared at different times.
In the Porto fire, which this Monday afternoon suffered reproductions due to the strong winds, 40 and 50 km/h with gusts of more than 60 km/h, have been working tonight a dozen terrestrial crews, along with eight pumps and two machinery seals.
The tasks have focused on counterflows and perimetration of the land, in collaboration with technicians, environmental agents and external endowments, and in the morning the aerial media have been incorporated to try to control a fire that yesterday skipped the defenses in the Sierra de la Cabrera in Zamora and León.
The complication of Porto's fire forced six populations; There were also new evictions yesterday in León for the fires of La Baña and Garaño, who also suffered revival because of the wind, and the flames took strength with a lot of virulence, breaking the good general evolution.
In León there are 18 evacuated locations, after this Monday, Realojos were authorized by improving the situation of the Molinaseca fire, which has gone from level 2 to controlled, and in which a person accused of causing the fire has been arrested for a serious imprudence when making fire to cook.
And Fasgar-Aigüeña's fire maintains very active fronts, with intense flame, which forces evacuated populations, and extinction work are very pending as in the rest of the fires of the meteorological evolution, of the climb of temperatures and especially of the wind.
Three active fronts in Porto
The forest fire of Porto that affects the provinces of Zamora and León currently has three active fronts and the one that most worries this Tuesday is the one that arrives at the Sierra de la Cabrera, as required by the head of the Territorial Environment Service of the Junta de Castilla y León in Zamora, Mariano Rodríguez.
The current situation, “within complexity”, is better in Zamora than in León but the uncontrolled front that advanced by the bath and has reached La Cabrera can threaten the entire Zamora region of La Carballeda if it is not possible to control in time, he warned. In the limit of that region, but on the east side, it is where the other great fire of this year began in Zamora, that of Molezuelas de la Carballeda, in which two people died and according to the first estimates of the Board, more than 31,500 hectares were burned.
With regard to the other two fronts of the Porto fire, the one that advanced through the mountain above San Ciprián de Sanabria, has remained “very close to the houses” of that town, but “it is more or less controlling.” The third focus is located in the Canyon of the Natural Park of Lake Sanabria, Sierras de Segondera and Porto, where there will be “continuous reproductions” in that mountain place and a surveillance is needed although “now it is no danger,” said Mariano Rodríguez.
Scare in Salamanca and a fire from Palencia to Cantabria
Monday's day also left a scare in Salamanca, where a fire declared in Terradillos rose at level 2 by threat to populations and the road that connects Salamanca with Alba de Tormes, but could be controlled in an hour thanks to the work of the media.
And in Palencia, where the fire of Cardaño de Arriba follows a good evolution, the wind revived yesterday that of Brañera, of zero level, and passed to the Cantabrian municipality of Campoo Brotherhood of Suso. Against the flames fight both effective from Castilla y León and Cantabria.
Meanwhile, the Fire of Anllares del Sil, Llamas de Cabrera, Barniedo de la Sierra and Gestoso maintain a positive evolution.
These great fires are added the active fires, but without risk, of yeres -which affected the natural space of the medulla -, in the Palencia mountain -, Molezuelas de la Carballeda -in which three people have died -, Canalejas, San Pedro de Cansoles, Campo and Candelario Becerril -the past of Cáceres-.
