The situation of the fires improves but Galicia and Aragón are still a concern

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Spain is suffering the worst wave of forest fires in a decade and many of them continue to burn uncontrollably this Thursday, such as a dozen of those that devastate Galicia, where 30,000 hectares have burned in recent days, or the one in Ateca (Zaragoza), which it has already burned 14,000.

"The Ateca fire maintains the perimeter of the burned area thanks to the weather and the increase in means" that combat it, the Aragon government said in a statement Wednesday night, referring to the fire that maintained a perimeter of 14,000 hectares and which forced the

The A2 motorway between Madrid and Barcelona,

​​cut off since Tuesday in a section near the Ateca fire, was

this morning, the Aragon government said on Twitter.

Spain has suffered in recent days from numerous fires,

that lasted from July 9 to 18 and was the most extreme recorded in the country, according to provisional data from the State Meteorological Agency.

Since the beginning of the year, some 70,000 hectares have burned, "almost double the average of the last decade," according to the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, this week.

The European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), which makes a different accounting, indicated that 2022 is being the worst year in terms of fires, with 319 fires and 193,247 hectares burned until July 16, already surpassing the record for all 2012, of 255 fires and 189,376 hectares affected, reports Afp.

The fire in

(northwest), one of the worst in recent days

a firefighter and a shepherd, had been controlled and was still

, reported the authorities of the Castilla y León region.

After a slight respite with a drop in temperatures between Tuesday and Wednesday, this Thursday thermometers were expected to reach 41 ºC in the region of Extremadura (southwest) and 40 ºC in Andalusia (south), although much of the territory Spanish remained under alert for high temperatures, according to the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet).

Evictions

have occurred in seven autonomous communities:

with some 3,000 people evacuated due to the Mijas fire),

(with 1,100 evacuated due to various fires),

(2,000 evicted in the province of Zamora alone),

,

and

(1,700).

Aragon

The General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) has

, closed since Tuesday afternoon due to the advance of the flames of the fire that has affected the

, in the Jalón corridor.

Last night the logistics and personnel operation was expanded to control the fire declared on Monday in Ateca, which affects a perimeter of 14,000 hectares, with another hundred members of the UME and who together add up to more than 350 people.

Traffic, as reported by the Soria Government Subdelegation, has been reopened early this Thursday, from Soria, in Medinaceli, to Zaragoza,

With this, the Cl-116 highway, between

, and the N-2, between

as well as the A-2, between

, in the province of Zaragoza, have also come into service.

The Civil Protection and Emergencies Unit of the Government Subdelegation, based on the specific meteorological information for the prevention and fight against forest fires provided by the Prediction and Surveillance Group of the Territorial Delegation of Aemet in Castilla y León, has declared from July 21 to 24

The weather forecast is that this Thursday, at 1:00 p.m., a maximum temperature of 35º C will be reached in the Iberian zone.

Galicia

The most important fires have

, the most serious those of

, in Ourense, with 10,500 hectares, and the 11,100 that add up the affected nuclei in

(Lugo), according to the part of Rural Environment with data collected this Thursday first thing in the morning.

The

in the parishes of

in

, and

in

, where one of the largest fires recorded in Galicia has already burned some 10,000 hectares of land in an area of ​​great ecological value , within the

According to the information provided by the Consellería do Medio Rural,

due to the proximity of the fire to the towns of

and

, in

, and

, in

16 technicians, 156 forest agents, 259 brigades, 137 motorized pumps, 3 excavators, 1 technical support unit, 20 planes, 26 helicopters and members of the Military Emergency Unit are working on the extinction tasks.

In Folgoso do Courel, the fire that started in the parish of Seceda remains active, a fire that has already burned 1,100 hectares and that maintains alert level 2 due to the

, in the neighboring municipality of Samos .

To suffocate the flames, 19 forest agents, 30 brigades, 14 motorized pumps, 6 planes, 6 helicopters and soldiers from the UME are working in the area.

Sources consulted by Efe indicated that the means of extinction have worked intensely in recent hours, with the help of bulldozers to make firebreaks, to

, a unique forest in Europe, given that if the fire reaches to reach that natural enclave the ecological disaster would be even greater.

and

, respectively, after burning some 85 hectares

, have been stabilized and controlled .

In the southern zone, in Quiroga,

, after burning 250 hectares.

In the region of A Ulloa,

the one that affected the

in the last hours , where 375 hectares burned and where level two alert was activated due to the

, in Antas de Ulla,

has also been controlled .

Castilla la Mancha

The Castilla-La Mancha Forest Fire Plan (Infocam) has stabilized the fire that started this Tuesday in Valdepeñas de la Sierra (Guadalajara) and, in addition, all the residents of several municipalities that were still evicted can return to their homes.

These same sources have indicated that the fire, which was at level 2, has dropped to level 1 danger, so the troops of

(UME) who have been displaced in the place since Tuesday afternoon

, as the work shifts that are at the moment end, reports Efe.

that were cut by the fire

has been authorized .

This fire had affected some 3,200 hectares and caused the eviction of a hundred residents.

Those from Valdepeñas de la Sierra, Tortuero or Alpedrete de la Sierra were able to return home late this Wednesday.

Today those from

,

,

and

At the moment, a total of thirty means -three of them aerial and 26 ground- with 144 people are working to control this fire that affects a forest area, with woody vegetation but not trees.

The Infocam Plan has indicated that the

in all the provinces of Castilla-La Mancha.

Castile and Leon

The residents of the Avila town of

(2,136 inhabitants), evicted since Monday due to the

, live in the provisional shelter installed in Las Navas del Marqués between resignation and lack of information over his people and his properties.

Currently

in the facilities set up in this town of 5,100 inhabitants, after the first day they reached around 300, according to what the married couple Antonio and Julia, two of the people who are still in the shelter.

The mayor of El Hoyo de Pinares (Ávila), David Beltrán, whose town was evicted last Monday, has called for unity and understanding from his 2,136 neighbors through an emotional message, in which he points out that they

"We are all having a bad time, it is a critical and tremendously dangerous situation, which we have never experienced," said the councilor, before pointing out how the fire has "surrounded" this town, which during these summer days is notably increasing its population, he said almost

Catalonia

The

, an urbanization located in the municipality of

(Barcelona), have lamented the houses lost due to the fire, and the black and gray trail that it has left on the landscape around their homes, which used to be " spectacular".

The

, started last Sunday at that point in the

and devastated more than

, affecting dozens of homes, some of which have been completely destroyed.

Speaking to EfeTelevisión, Jordi explains that the Mossos d'Esquadra evicted them from their homes in a matter of half an hour, when the fire started, and that they could hardly take anything from their homes.

When they returned, they returned to a place that had little to do with the landscape in which they lived before the fire, and some of them

"So much ash and everything burnt does not enter your retina. Before, we had spectacular views," adds Jordi, who criticizes the lack of maintenance of the forest by the City Council of El Pont de Vilomara.

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