They investigate if there is a connection between the two fires in Sierra Bermeja

The operatives working on the ground in

, Malaga, where the fire has already ravaged around 3,500 hectares of forest, are considering the possibility that it could be an intentional fire and that there is even a relationship with the fire that devastated an adjoining area last September, as EL MUNDO has learned through sources close to the firefighting device deployed in

.

With this background context, the authorities proceeded to identify on Wednesday a man who was loitering around the command post, located in the area of ​​the hermitage, with no apparent connection to the troops deployed by the

since he showed, according to witnesses consulted, a "strange attitude".

The fire has kept the firefighting services in check for almost three days and over it, inevitably, the shadow of the one that was suffered in this same area last September and in which a firefighter,

, lost his life .

The virulence of the flames, the weather conditions and the orography of the land immediately put the firefighters on alert regarding the seriousness of what they had in their hands and its possible evolution;

furthermore, in "its forms" it presented important similarities with the other and was heading down "the same path."

Although it is true that it is still early to say with certainty that this was the case and other possibilities are not ruled out, in those first moments some of those who had the opportunity to approach ground zero claim to have observed two different sources of smoke with a distance approximately one kilometer between them.

It should also be noted that from the beginning it has drawn attention to the fact that the place where the flames originated is an area that is particularly difficult to access, through which not even dirt tracks pass and in the that there was no reason to find people working who could have set fire, even accidentally.

As a high voltage line runs through there, it has also been thought that a vulture could have fallen on the cables and literally caused a spark to jump;

but the fact that there are two points from which smoke came out forces us to quarantine that hypothesis.

“It is very rare, the truth, that the cinder reached so far from where the first focus was,” the sources indicate, referring to the power lines.

fire

would be related to the fact that complaints have been received from the guards of the

estate indicating that in recent times they had been robbed several entire gates, they had cut them down and taken them complete, they have specified.

In this incident, which at the close of this edition had been stabilized by the Infoca, three firefighters have been injured - one of them seriously and still hospitalized in the Burn Unit of the

- and has forced the eviction of several thousand of people from the Malaga town of Benahavís -including its urban area- and as many others scattered in

, also Malaga , but since Thursday night they have been able to return to their homes.

The area affected by the flames has different levels of damage, as reported by sources of the device.

In addition, the last neighbors to return to their homes are those from the

urbanizations .

It has also been explained that the firefighter who was still hospitalized in a serious condition after suffering burns has improved and has been transferred to the plant.

To the 3,500 hectares that have burned in the last week, we must add the 10,000 hectares that have already burned in a neighboring area of ​​the Sierra Bermeja itself, in the

, last September.

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