The forest fire declared this Thursday in the Olivargas area, in Almonaster la Real (Huelva) has already added 250 evicted people , after the evacuation of the village of El Villar this morning, and the extinction work has incorporated aerial means.

The Infoca Plan has indicated that the reincorporation of aerial means is taking place in a staggered manner, once the thermal inversion has cleared , a phenomenon that causes a layer of cold air above the fire, which causes the smoke to descend to the surface and form a thick cloud, something that makes the work of airplanes and helicopters difficult.

Two transport and fire helicopters and two bombers are already at the scene .

For his part from the 112 Emergency Service of Andalusia they have informed Efe that as a result of the advance of the fire has proceeded to the preventive evacuation of the village of El Villar, in the municipality of Zalamea la Real.

Some 70 people from this village have been rehoused in the Zalamea la Real Sports Center, bringing the number of people evicted by the fire to 250, after the villages of Cueva de la Mora and Monteblanco, in Almonaster, were evacuated yesterday .

Civil Guard troops on one of the affected roads EFE

In addition, the HU-7104 roads, at kilometer 1 of which the origin of the fire is located, and the N-435 at the crossroads with that first road and with the A-461, in the municipality of El Campillo (Huelva).

Throughout the night he has worked in the area affected by the fire, which now exceeds 1,000 hectares , a device made up of more than 150 troops displaced from Huelva, Seville, Jaén, Córdoba and Granada.

The fire broke out this Thursday shortly after 2:30 p.m. in the Olivargas area of ​​the municipality of Almonaster (Huelva) and forced, almost from its inception, the eviction and paralysis of the activity of the Aguas Teñidas and Magdalena mines.

From 4:24 pm, level 1 of the Forest Fire Emergency Plan remains active in its provincial phase due to this fire.

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