Aerial means return to the Zamora fire, which is still out of control and has already led to the eviction of 14 towns

• Castilla y León The fire of the Sierra de la Culebra is "extremely" complicated

Aerial means of extinction have been incorporated from eight in the morning this Saturday to the work to quell the

, in the province of

, which continues without control and with fourteen localities. already evicted.

The night extinguishing media have experienced a "hard and intense work" night and, although the fire is still active, early this Saturday morning it was

and the height of the flames had decreased in some zones, according to sources of the extinction operation.

between kilometers 32 and 49, between Litos and Villanueva de Valrojo, to

be closed to traffic since Friday night .

Nor can you circulate on the ZA-912 highways

between Villardeciervos and Mahíde, the

between Sarracín de Aliste and Ferreras de Abajo, the

between Villardeciervos and Val de Santa María, according to Tráfico.

1,733 neighbors affected

Throughout Friday, from dawn until late at night, the

threatened by the flames and smoke continued to happen as the fire progressed and by early Saturday morning residents of

had to spend the night outside their homes.

After the last of them,

, a small district of a dozen inhabitants, was evicted, the affected localities add up to a population of 1,733 residents, according to data from the latest INE census.

In addition to Flechas, throughout the afternoon and night of this Friday, the residents of

,

,

,

and

have been evacuated .

Previously, at noon the towns of

and

were evicted and at dawn on Friday those of

,

,

,

,

and

.

Part of the residents of these towns have spent the night in the homes of relatives and close friends or second homes, while some 400 people have spent the night in sports halls in Alcañices, Camarzana de Tera and Benavente.

Among those evicted there were also

, who have been temporarily relocated to residential centers in Benavente and La Bañeza (León).

The fire has affected livestock buildings, telecommunications infrastructure, an uninhabited house that has burned and the Villardeciervos fire base, from which seven helicopters had to be moved to another place to avoid being rendered useless by not being able to take off due to the smoke. .

The latest estimates of the extent of the fire, in the absence of what the flames have advanced throughout the last night, have pointed to about

, the majority of pine, scrubland and scrub, but also areas of chestnut trees and some farm fields.

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