Sixteen aerial means have been progressively incorporated from early in the morning of this Sunday to the work of extinguishing the forest fire declared in Lober de Aliste (Zamora), which remains uncontrolled after devastating hundreds of hectares and affecting the fire to several ships, a fire truck and a house.

The fire, which has reached the towns of Domez de Aliste and Vegalatrave without regretting personal injuries, is still active despite the fact that the night-time drop in temperatures and the buttress fires carried out last night on the left flank of the front.

With these controlled fires, an attempt has been made to limit the spread of the fire, reduce the virulence of the front, slow down the advance towards Losacio and prevent the flames from spreading towards the Sierra de la Culebra game reserve .

The Junta de Castilla y León has reported the incorporation this Sunday morning of sixteen air means, four more of those who worked on Saturday on a fire that broke out at 2 p.m. in Lober de Aliste and spread very quickly due to to the wind.

The fire surrounded the town of Domez de Aliste, where it reached several ships that the means of extinction and residents of the town tried to save.

2,000 hectares burned

For now, the work of the displaced media has been effective and the fire no longer has a flame although it remains active. It has affected a large area of ​​the Zamoran regions of Aliste and Tierra de Alba, with a perimeter close to 38 kilometers and an estimated area of ​​more than 2,000 hectares , according to sources from the Junta de Castilla y León.

The first calculations made from the air by the aerial resources coordination helicopter indicate that 2,089.8 hectares have been burned in the fire in an area that extends along a perimeter of 37.89 kilometers delimited after use. of firewalls and machinery seals.

Despite the fact that the area is delimited and there is no visible flame, the fire is still considered active because the wind continues in the area and there is a risk that it will reproduce.

Charred a pumper truck

In the work to quell the flames and defend one of the straw bales from the fire, a fire-fighting truck of the Ministry of Development and Environment of the Junta de Castilla y León has been charred by the flames , as confirmed regional government sources.

The troops who were working in the area next to that fire truck have been able to escape without damage.

In addition, in Vegalatrave, the fire has affected a home, sources from the Professional Association of Environmental Agents of Castilla y León have detailed.

During the night, the extinction work has been carried out by seventy-two members of the Military Emergency Unit who have traveled to the area with six fire trucks, a large volume water storage tank truck, a machinery checkpoint. and an ambulance.

The UME has taken over from the nearly two hundred professionals who on Saturday collaborated in the extinction tasks , among which there were members of the Ministry of Development and Environment of the Board, the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, of the provincial extinction consortium of the Zamora Provincial Council and agents of the Civil Guard.

The advanced command center to follow the evolution of the fire has been established in the town of Carbajales de Alba , where the sports hall has been set up and buses are prepared in case it is necessary to evacuate any population.

Among the media that have worked on the fire are twelve helicopters and five airplanes , eleven technicians and twenty environmental agents, nine brigades of specialists in fighting forest fires and three reinforcement brigades, ten machinery checkpoints and fifteen fire-fighting vehicles.

Nineteen ground crews have also intervened , three at night, a unit of the UME with 72 troops and three teams of firefighters from the provincial extinction consortium of the Zamora County Council.

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