Events Contempt of JxCat to the help of the Army to put out the fires in Catalonia
The simultaneity of fires in Catalonia challenges the devices prepared by the Department of the Interior to face this summer's forestry campaign, stressing the teams from very early on and revealing that there is a lack of troops when several fires occur at the same time, as happened this week in Catalonia.
However, the firefighters continue to work and for the moment they have stabilized the Corbera d'Ebre and Sallent fires.
Two crews with about thirty troops remain to put out the flames.
In addition, they are intensifying the actions in Castellar de la Ribera and Ogern to stabilize them, which could happen in the next few hours.
However, the fires in Lladurs, very close to Castellar, are worrying, since it is unstable and there is a risk that the flames will affect a large forest area.
100 hectares burned but there is a potential risk of reaching 50,000 according to firefighters.
Work is being done in the same direction on the Artesa de Segre fire, which has three contained zones but the one to the west, which advances towards the Montsec massif, is the most uncontrolled.
This fire has burned 1,300 hectares.
Work has been done tonight to control several outbreaks and it is expected that farmers will be able to plow more fields this Friday to make firebreaks.
Along with extinction tasks, Rural Agents and Mossos d'Esquadra are working to find out the origin of the fire.
Everything indicates that it could be the fault of lightning, although remains are analyzed to determine that it was not an agricultural burning that got out of control.
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