The fight against fires in Castilla y León continues and the situation has worsened this Friday afternoon, August 15, in which the authorities already foresee a day complicated by high temperatures. If it has dawned with nine high level fires, the potential gravity index (IGR) 2 in the provinces of León, Salamanca and Zamora, ends with 14 fires of this level, including reproductions and adding two worrying fires in the province of Ávila
The maximum active level fires are Fasgar, Anllares del Sil, Llamas de Cabrera, Yeres and Barniedo de la Reina, in the province of León, also adding that of Paradiña in El Bierzo, which has been reactivated; Molezuelas de la Carballeda, Puercas and Castromil, in Zamora; San Cristóbal de los Mochuelos, El Payo, La Sagrada are at the highest level of gravity in Salamanca and in the province of Ávila the Herradón and Mijares are added.
The severity of the fires has forced new evacuations in León -Portilla de la Reina, population of Somoza and Paradiña-, in the province of Salamanca -tos payos-, and in Ávila -The Herradón-.
There are also six active fires of IGR 1: Orallo (León), Resoba (Palencia), La Alberca (Salamanca) and La Nail (León), Porto (Zamora) and Corral de Gaciñigo (Salamanca),
Salamanca enters extreme situation
The province of Salamanca has entered into extreme situation this Saturday afternoon with five large fires at the same time, three level 2 and two level 1, in San Cristóbal de los Mochuelos, El Payo, La Sagrada, La Alberca and Corral de Garciñigo.
The one who worries the most is that of San Cristóbal de los Mochuelos (Cipérez), which has just been raised at level 2, because it can behave serious risk to the population and non -forest goods.
One of the farmers in the area has explained to Efe that the fire is heading towards a hunting farm in which there is abundant vegetation, so it is feared that if it enters there it is very difficult to extinguish. The worker of the Vitigudino region has also denounced the lack of means at this time to attend to this fire, so farmers and the population feels helpless in an afternoon that accumulates five serious fires in the province.
The Payo (Robleda) declared today and in which 29 media now work today (Ciudad Rodrigo), also originated today and in which 4 media are used today are also at level 2.
Today also declared another, level 1, in Corral de Garciñigo (Guijuelo), in which three media work, and in the morning the fire declared in the pool has dropped at level 1. This fire, which emerged on Tuesday night with a zero level, was reactivated on Thursday at level 2, something that the mayor has denounced that it could have been avoided if there had been night surveillance.
The town is overflowing with the celebration today of the traditional offertory of the Virgen de la Asunción, at this time it passes from its usual 1,000 inhabitants to a number that is almost five more times
Ávila on alert
A second level 2 fire in the potential gravity index (IGR-2) has been declared in the province of Ávila, after the one close to the capital of Abulense and has forced to evict a hundred people in the area of El Herredón, affecting the municipality of Mijares, in the municipality of Mijares, in the Abulense region of the Tiétar Valley.
The fire in this area of the province that has already suffered another two weeks ago, with 2,200 hectares razed, has been declared at 18.40 hours, reaching level 2 of the IGR at 7:11 pm, for understanding that they can be in danger of wooded masses of more than 300 hectares, according to the Junta de Castilla y León.
This fire affects a municipality of Alto Tiétar, located 67 kilometers from the capital, near the communities of Madrid and Castilla-La Mancha, with a population of 730 inhabitants, which on this dates multiplies several times its number of neighbors.
The forest fire declared this noon in the Herradón de Pinares has forced the annexed neighborhood of Urraca Miguel, in addition to having cut the rail traffic between the Herradón-La Cañada and Ávila.
The fire, which was declared at least ten but has taken speed for having the wind in its favor and advancing for fine dry fuel, has also closed the AV-500 road traffic and makes it difficult to circulate in the CL-505, according to the General Directorate of Traffic on its website.
More evacuations in León
The declared forest fire in Paradiña, municipality of Villafranca del Bierzo, has gone from controlled at the level of the potential gravity index, after taking strength, threatening the towns of Population of Somoza and Paradiña, which have been evicted. According to the Government Subdelegation in León, the evacuated neighbors will be relocated to the Villafranca del Bierzo pavilion.
The fire was declared on August 10, it became declared level 2, but an improvement of the situation even allowed it to be controlled until this afternoon, when it has been complicated again, passing first at level 1 and then at level 2, with the evictions of Poblaje de Somoza and Paradiña.
In addition, the Subdelegation reports that Barniedo’s fire of the Queen, who is in potential severity index 2, has also forced evacuating Portilla de la Reina by falling for paves, and the neighbors will go to the Pavilion of Boca de Haragano.
Wounded from the UME
The day in León has left four members of the Emergency Military Unit (UME) wounded in the Yeres Fire, three of which have suffered burns of different consideration in different parts of the body, while the fourth suffers a dislocation on the shoulder. They have been admitted to the Bierzo hospital in Ponferrada.
The two neighbors killed by the Zamora-León fire have already been added to the five injured that remain admitted by serious burns at the Río Hortega University Hospital in Valladolid, who continue without significant clinical changes in the last 24 hours-four in a critical state and one serious-while the sixth admitted to the Getafe University remains stable and has experienced a positive evolution. Of these six wounded, four resulted in Abejera (Zamora) for the fire that began in Puerques when trying to flee the flames, and the other two in La Bañeza (León).
