The fire in Las Hurdes gets complicated and another important one breaks out in the Monfragüe National Park

• Las Hurdes Uncertainty so that the fire is not a tourist ruin: "We have 500 km2 of extension"

• Without control The fire, caused by lightning, devastates more than 4,000 hectares

The Las Hurdes fire, which exceeds 4,000 hectares burned in the provinces of Cáceres and Salamanca, has been complicated this Thursday due to

in the perimeter area of ​​some 55 kilometers where work was being done to try to control it. unsuccessfully four days after its origin, produced by lightning from a storm.

"We had a critical area that has finally been reactivated and is going to the Las Batuecas areas," said the director of firefighting in the Extremaduran area, Francisco García Navarrete, who has also reported that troops from Castilla y León have evacuated to some monks who lived in the monastery that is on the road that goes up

, in the province of Salamanca.

In addition, he explained that the flames are currently located in four sectors, in two of which there have been reactivations, specifically in the northern area of ​​Monsagro (Salamanca) and in the sector of the Las Batuecas area.

Thus, the direction of the Civil Protection Emergency Plan has ordered the preventive evacuation of the Las Mestas farmhouse, belonging to the municipality of Ladrillar.

The inhabitants of said arcade are being transferred to Montehermoso and the most vulnerable people to

.

At this time there are seven population centers that have been preventively evacuated due to this fire, which is still active and at level 2. Specifically, the evacuated centers are

.

ANOTHER FIRE IN MONFRAGÜE

On the other hand, another fire unleashed in the vicinity of the Monfragüe natural park is also worrying, which has forced it to be

, declared this Thursday in Casas de Miravete, a town near the national park, in order to request means from the Government center that collaborate in the extinction.

The Junta de Extremadura has already officially requested support in the extinction of the Military Emergency Unit because the flames are advancing "very strongly".

According to

, president of the association of friends of Monfragüe, the flames began shortly before 4:00 p.m. near the old Eiffel Tower hostel-restaurant and have advanced very quickly, entering the National Park through the shade of La Moheda.

"Immediately it has reached the rope of the mountain range and advances at full speed along the sunny side of La Moheda and surely also from El Cogujón, very close to the Salto del Corzo, in the direction of the shaded areas of

, after crossing Riofrío. With In all certainty, the fire has already burned several black vulture nests, one of the jewels of the National Park, according to what the park rangers have informed me".

For Castañares, former Director General of the Environment, "those responsible for managing the national park and fighting forest fires

, which is there all year round due to the importance of the place,

and without their fire-fighting vehicles, precisely on the day when there was the greatest risk of fire and, therefore, on the day when it was most important that they all be there, deployed and on maximum alert". This expert underlines that "in the seven terms National Park municipal there was only one pickup with five forest firefighters, located in Villarreal de San Carlos, almost an hour's drive from the place of the fire.

When they arrived the fire was already unstoppable ", he has described it.

At the moment,

of the natural environment and a coordinator are working in the area, according to the Junta de Extremadura.

High temperatures and changing wind conditions make firefighting difficult.

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