Navarra fights against several fires that affect thousands of hectares with the eviction of more than 700 residents

The fire declared in Navarra has devastated thousands of hectares and has left between 700 and 800 people out of their homes, as the Vice President of the Navarrese Government, Javier Remírez, explained to the Ser chain, who has shown his concern about the two outbreaks that continue currently active.

The fire already affects thirteen towns and there is no record of the same in the Autonomous Community in more than 40 years.

The inhabitants of the towns of

and

have been evicted this Sunday also as a result of the fires that affect the areas of

and

, respectively, as reported by Europa Press de Sos Navarra.

They thus join nine other localities that have also been evicted:

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

and

.

Around 700 people are those who have been evacuated.

There are

displaced persons in Tafalla, Murillo el Fruto, Sangüesa and Olite.

In addition to all the available means of the Foral Community,

to which troops from Castilla León have joined.

Among the material resources, the intervention of four seaplanes, 10 helicopters and 8 heavy machines (bulldozer) stands out.

The fire, stabilized in Zamora

The forest fire in the

, in the province of Zamora, has reached an area of

, according to Efe of the estimate made this Sunday night by the Junta de Castilla y León based on the images of the helicopter coordination, which would make it the most serious of the century.

The fire, which is already

occupies a perimeter of 120.88 kilometers and an exact extension of 30,799.3 hectares, of which about half would be wooded forest area.

The

the night from Saturday to Sunday contributed to improving the situation of the fire and the somewhat lower wind than in previous days has favored extinction, despite the fact that the fire is still active but without flame and some specific reproduction is not ruled out sources of the fire operation have reported.

Fire in Villardeciervos (Zamora). EFE

The improvement allowed the residents of the twenty evicted towns that spent the night from Saturday to Sunday

due to smoke and flames

were reopened, such as the national highways N-631 and N

-525 and the Madrid-Galicia AVE railway.

Once the area of ​​the fire was delimited, to prevent the winds of up to 40 kilometers per hour on Sunday afternoon from rekindling the flames, almost seven hundred extinction troops have been deployed in the area, half of them from the UME.

Given the magnitude of the fire and its consequences, the president of the Junta de Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, who this Sunday has revisited the advanced command center of the fire, has announced a special plan for the environmental and socioeconomic recovery of area.

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