The Military Emergency Unit (UME) has mobilized 191 soldiers and 75 media to try to quell the fires that broke out on Saturday in the Avila municipalities of

Navalacruz and Cepeda de la Mora and La Parra, an annex of the town of Arenas de San Pedro

.

Both fires remain active and have been declared

dangerous Level 2 on a scale of 0 to 3

by the Junta de Castilla y León, since in both cases the evacuations of homes have been necessary.

In the case of the first, this morning

Villaviciosa and Robledillo

, both annexes of the municipality of Solosancho, were evacuated, and in the second

nine homes

were evacuated

, two of which have burned

, as well as a warehouse and 18 goats.

As reported by the Government Delegation in Castilla y León, the UME has incorporated the command post in the two fires tonight, which includes a

military police team, an ambulance, a maintenance team and a supply team

.

In addition, a

D7 Dozer from the Emergency Intervention Battalion

(BIEM V)

has been added to the Cepeda la Mora -Navalacruz- fire

.

'Last morning, these interventions in both fires totaled a total of

148 military personnel and 70 media

, coordinated from the BIEM V command post in León.

To this deployment, another section of BIEM V intervention in the Cepeda de la Mora fire has been added later, which adds 102 soldiers and 32 media in this fire and 191 military and 75 media between the two of the province of Avila.

Regarding the missions of the UME during tonight, in

Candeleda the works have focused on the flank near the town of El Raso

, as well as on surveillance and perimeter work in the southwest area.

As for the Cepeda de la Mora fire, the tasks assigned to the right flank have been to "prevent the advance towards the town of Navalacruz", while those to the left flank have been to "defend the populations of

La Hija de Dios. Robledillo and Villaviciosa ", although the latter two have had to be evacuated

.

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