The fires go more in the province of Ourense, where the fires that remain burning without control have burned about 8,000 hectares and have caused neighborhood evictions, confinements in several points and several injured. In the fire that was declared on Tuesday in Oimbra they suffered serious burns three firefighters of the Municipal Brigade, which are admitted to the burning unit of the A Coruña hospital. The 112 Galicia collects in his balance of the last hours that three people with burns, three others with trauma, two attended by respiratory problems and four, for anxiety crisis. All these cases are slight, he adds.
The flames forced to evict residents of several populations. In Pena Pedada, in A Pobra de Trives, 17 people had to leave their homes, although they have already been able to return. In the same municipality, 20 neighbors were evacuated in Somoza, who still cannot return to their homes. Another eviction took place in A Palela, in Maceda, which affects three neighbors.
In addition, the children and the monitors of a children's camp that was at the Manzaneda station spent the night confined in the facilities and it is expected that on Wednesday they will return with their families. In Monterrei 500 people from the populations of Medeiros, to Salgueira and Flariz were confined last night, although the measure has already risen.
The fires of the province, which have led to the Xunta decreeing situation 2 of emergencies for its entire territory, continue to burning and there are three simultaneous ones that are considerate of great fire, overcoming the 500 hectares. The biggest one – in fact, the largest registered in Galicia this year – is the one that began on Friday of last week in the Parish of Requeixo of Chandrexa de Queixa. It advances through a steep area and very difficult access and has already razed 4,500 hectares.
In the same municipality, another fire that began on Tuesday in the paraffita parish and that has entered the neighboring municipality of Manzaneda -which has forced the children's camp, began on Tuesday in the parish. Has already calcined 500 hectares. In the parish of Santiso de Maceda, also in the Central Ourensano massif, 1,700 hectares have already burned, in a fire that also affects the neighboring municipality of Montederramo. In all these cases the Emergency Military Unit (UME) is deployed.
The Oimbra Fire in which three volunteers of the Municipal Brigade were injured. It began in the Parish of A Granxa, but in its progress it is also affecting land of the neighboring municipality of Monterrei. So far it has burned 200 hectares. The mountain is also burning in a mosque. The fire that began in the parish of A Esculqueira led to transfer the elders of a residence on Tuesday. According to the most recent calculation, he has calcined 100 hectares. They are collaborating in the extinction work of Portugal.
The Xunta considers that they are stabilized, although not controlled, five other fires in Ourense. In the parish of Castro de Escuadro, in Maceda, the fire that has been burned 450 hectares still does not go out. In Vilariño de Conso, in the parish of Mormente, 180 hectares have burned. In walls, in Montederramo, the affected hectares are 120; While in Ourense, in Seixalbo, the burned surface is 50 hectares and in Vilardevós, in Monalde, is 40 hectares.
Outside the province of Ourense, the Dozón fire worries, in which situation 2 is still declared by the proximity to the houses of Castro. This fire, which razed 300 hectares, caused cuts on the highway that joins Santiago with Ourense and on the N-525 road, in which traffic has already been restored.
