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The Mossos d'Esquadra arrested a 25-year-old man

this Saturday morning

for allegedly

causing five forest fires in Navès

(

Lleida

).

The arrest occurs on the same day that

the Generalitat Firefighters are working to extinguish 30 fires

.

The

alleged perpetrator of the fires

has been

located through a joint device

between the Firefighters, Forest Defense Groups (ADF) and Rural Agents, according to a tweet from the Catalan police.

The Firefighters have reported that they are facing "a complicated situation"

this Saturday afternoon

with

thirty simultaneous forest fires in Catalonia

, the most important ones affecting the municipalities of

Artesa de Segre

(Lleida) and

Olivella

(

Barcelona

).

The last of the fires in which the firefighters work has broken out around three in the afternoon in

Saldes

(

Barcelona

), in the Pedraforca area, where seven ground crews are currently working.

In

Olivella

, according to the latest data provided by the Rural Agents, 95 hectares have burned so far.

Eight air assets (four small planes and four helicopters) and 42 ground crews are working on this fire, including 14 command vehicles and 28 trucks.

The Rural Agents and the Firefighters have asked the citizens not to go to the

Parc del Garraf

to facilitate the work against that fire in Olivella.

Fire in Artesa de Segre

The

Firefighters of the Generalitat

redouble their efforts in the

Artesa de Segre

(Lleida).

The

south wind that

has begun to blow complicates the tasks of extinguishing the fire, which

has already engulfed more than 2,000 hectares

, so the

Fire Department believes that they will not be able to consider it stabilized either on Saturday afternoon or tomorrow

.

In an appearance before the media at the control center of Artesa de Segre (Lleida), the delegate of the Government in Lleida,

Bernat Solé

, explained that the firefighters

are following the evolution of the wind with concern

, given that it

could "bring out" the front east of the fire

, which was "relatively under control" this morning.

"We cannot talk about stabilization of the fire and tomorrow it will be difficult to confirm it," Solé insisted, adding that the Artesa de Segre fire now concentrates the "maximum possible air and ground resources".

According to the person in charge of the extinction tasks, the

fire is "confined" in the axes that the Fire Department had marked

this morning as a goal, but the wind can give more force to the head of the fire and cause it to reopen, so Some areas of the perimeter have been carved to prevent the advance of the flames.

"We will have to work hard tonight

," acknowledged Miquel, who specified that the bulk of the troops are now working to stop the

two fronts that are still active

, one of them two kilometers long, half that of yesterday.

For this reason, the

objective of the firefighting teams is to "endure the day"

with the resources available to limit the lines of the active fronts, so it is important that another great fire does not break out in Catalonia, where most of the the community is at risk of fires due to the heat wave.

On the other hand, as reported by the

Fire Department of the Generalitat

, the

Lladurs fire

has been considered stabilized after burning

50 hectares

, which has prevented the advance of a fire that threatened to burn nearly 50,000 hectares of

forest mass

.

Meteorological conditions

In parallel, another

forest fire

is active that started in

Coll de Nargó

due to a lightning strike, while the

other fires caused

by an electrical storm,

Peramola

and

Cabó

, are already stabilized.

The fires in

Artesa de Segre

and those in the Solsonès region today mobilize 120 vehicles and

400

members of the Generalitat Fire Brigade, as well as 21 air vehicles and three bombers.

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