• Fire: Gran Canaria: fire enters the Tamadaba Natural Park after devastating more than 1,500 hectares
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The forest fire declared on Saturday in Gran Canaria has already affected 3,400 hectares, has caused the evacuation of some 5,000 people and has flanks that, according to technicians, are out of extinction capacity.

The president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, said on Sunday night at a press conference that despite having the largest land and air operation that has ever been in a fire on the island, the fire is not contained nor stabilized and it is expected that this situation will be maintained for at least the next three days.

Also, the president of the archipelago has announced that this Monday the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in operation, Luis Planas, will move to the island to learn about the situation of this macro-fire, in addition to receiving the calls of the King and the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez.

The fire has already been introduced in the pine forest of Tamadaba, where, according to the technician Federico Grillo, the only access through this area is closed by fire and the terrestrial means cannot penetrate due to its danger.

In the work of extinction, said Cricket, complex maneuvers have been carried out "that have gone to waste" given the hardness of the fire, in which flames of up to 50 meters have been recorded that make it difficult to smoke the media task Aerial

They evacuate the urban center of Valleseco

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The urban area of ​​the Grancanario municipality of Valleseco (3,784 inhabitants) has been evacuated on Sunday night by the forest fire that began this Saturday in the highlands of this town.

The Security and Emergency Coordinating Center has reported on its Twitter that the population will be transferred to the municipality of Teror.

This is the second urban area that has been necessary to vacate after Saturday the eviction of Tejeda was ordered due to the proximity of the fire.

The fire declared in the medians of Gran Canaria "is neither contained, controlled, nor stabilized," insisted the president of the Canary Islands, who has detailed that during the day this Sunday 800,000 liters of water have been used in the tasks of extinction and almost five thousand people from seven municipalities of the island have been evacuated.

The fire advances in the southwest direction, will increase significantly in surface during the night and there are areas that are "out of extinction capacity", as Federico Grillo has lamented, insisting that there is an "important risk" of expanding the fire in the southwest direction, Towards the municipalities of Mogán and La Aldea.

THE WORKS CONTINUE

During the night about 400 troops will work in the fire extinction , while at dawn air, land and reinforcements of the Emergency Military Unit (EMU) will be incorporated.

With regard to the area of ​​the Tamadaba pine forest, the technician of the Gran Canaria council has explained that the fire "has a clear track" in the massif during the night because there is only one way to access this pine forest and "put the media" in the place would be "a suicide".

40 people, confined in Artenara

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Some forty people are confined in the urban area of ​​Artenara, in a place that the authorities consider safe to spend the night, because at this time it is very risky to leave that town from the summit of Gran Canaria due to the fire, as confirmed by Efe 112.

The sources have stressed that these people have taken refuge in the cultural center of the town, because it is considered that this building, because of its location, offers guarantees for its safety.

A spokeswoman for 112 has explained that it has been decided that these people protect themselves in the cultural center because it is considered that this building offers safe conditions and location, while leaving Artenara at this time, with the fire situation tonight It would be very dangerous.

"We will not be able to do anything" in this area, "the situation is very bad" and the potential of the fire "is very high," Grillo added.

This fire has bordered the declared one just a week ago in the municipality of Artenara, where the burned has acted as a "firewall", and continues to move southeast.

The areas that the media cannot access given the virulence of the fire will be recognized by the troops once the fire has passed, as soon as possible, with the aim of minimizing the damages that could have been caused.

CLIMATOLOGY, AGAINST

The weather forecast on Monday maintains the conditions that have occurred during this Sunday in Gran Canaria, with low humidity and a heat wave with more than thirty degrees, and will remain until the end of the night, when temperatures are expected to fall and improve the wind.

During the day on Monday, in addition, there will be areas of the Gran Canaria summit with less than 10% humidity.

With respect to the damage caused by the fire in the homes of the medians of Gran Canaria, Grillo has explained that there are still no data on how many houses have been affected but he predicts that "there will be many".

The president of the Canary Islands and the technician of the Island Council have reminded the grancanarians who should not approach the summit and residents in the middle of the island who can carry out self-protection actions that could minimize damage to their homes if they could be affected, such as avoiding objects around houses such as awnings or firewood.

Torres has indicated that he has transferred to the Spanish Government and the Royal House the message that "We will be able to overcome this fire."

THREE ACTIVE FIRE IN GUADALAJARA AND ÁVILA

In parallel, two operations involving more than 30 land and air means and 154 people are trying to control two forest fires that have been declared this Sunday in the city of Guadalajara and in the municipality of Loranca de Tajuña.

The fire that is requiring the participation of more means is that of the capital, which was detected by a watchman at 2:31 pm and affects an agricultural forest area. The Plan of Prevention and Extinction of Forest Fires of Castilla-La Mancha (Infocam) has decreed the level 1 alert because it has forced a road to be cut off to traffic.

There is working a device integrated by ten terrestrial means, seven aerial means and one of direction and coordination, with a total of 96 people.

A little later the emergency service was reported to Loranca de Tajuña, whose extinction is an operation consisting of 14 media, eight land, five air and one coordination, with a total of 57 people.

Also in Castilla-La Mancha, but in the province of Cuenca, it has been possible to extinguish the fire that has started this noon in a wooded area located in the municipality of Fuentenaba de Jábaga, whose vegetation was composed of 80 percent by pines and 20% by holm oaks.

Meanwhile, more than 200 troops and 14 air media from Castilla y León, Castilla-La Mancha and Extremadura are trying to extinguish the fire that was declared early this Sunday in the Sierra de Gredos Regional Park and of the Regional Reserve of Hunting of Gredos, in the province of Ávila.

The fire started about 1.35 hours on the grounds of El Raso, an annex of the town of Candeleda.

The Junta de Castilla y León has declared at level 1 alert to estimate that it will take "more than twelve hours" to control due to the "difficulty of access" to an area whose elevation is at an altitude of between 1,400 and 1,700 meters

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