The residents of Bejís return to their homes in tears after the "horror": "The landscape is Dantesque"

The residents of Bejís (Castellón) return to their homes this Saturday, accompanied by mixed feelings, after a forest fire that has left a

, but with the enthusiasm that "It's over now."

The mayor of this Castellón municipality, María José Madrid, in statements to Europa Press, has been "euphoric" after learning that the residents of the town can return to their homes.

"Now we can go home, we are starting to see what happens," she said.

However, he regretted that these "uncertainty" days have been lived

and added that each of the residents of the municipality has sought "the best way to cope with these hard days."

The municipal official has pointed out that, despite "the joy" of being able to return to their homes, "there are also tears because the landscape is Dantesque."

"I have been very happy to enter, but the vision is really very hard", she has stated, while she has lamented that "the entire municipal term has been burned".

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The Bejís fire is evolving favorably and there are no longer any flames in most of the perimeter

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The Bejís fire is evolving favorably and there are no longer any flames in most of the perimeter

"Now we have to see that people are coming, and little by little we get to work for what they may need," said Madrid, while indicating that now "primary services must be restored, but little by little" .

The mayor has indicated that life in the town is being resumed "slowly", since the neighbors return in a staggered manner and each one makes an assessment of the situation in their homes.

Likewise, the mayor has reported that the municipality still

given that the Ministry of Health "has to assess the state of the water before it can be consumed."

In this line, she has pointed out that some drinking water tanks have been completely emptied by the fire "and it was not known if the municipality's bottling plant was burned from the inside."

Now, after "the pertinent assessments to check its condition", water has been requested from the bottling plant "and it is already being transferred to the town to provide service to the neighbors until the Health Department allows the taps to be opened."

As for the internet service, which is still inoperative, the fiber "has burned and all the towers have fallen."

"We are trying to manage it, but this is not from one day to the next, so slowly and with good lyrics," said the municipal leader.

"Hard days"

Some residents of the town of Bejís (Castellón) check the damage caused to their home.Biel AliñoEFE

The atmosphere among the neighborhood is similar.

Speaking to Europa Press Television, one of the residents of this municipality explained that they have been

, during which he has been thinking at all times how his hens would be.

However, he has shown his "enthusiasm" because "it's over".

"Now, to start working and leave it as it was because those of Bejís are tough", he joked.

The affected has indicated that from the consistory they have been guided to go up to their houses after lunch, since before the roads were collapsed.

"The town is closed, bars, shops and everything, there is no one because they have just given the order," he said, while noting that bottles of water were being transported to the town, since it is still not possible to use the drinking water.

Another of the residents of Bejís has expressed that the feeling after the fire is "

" and it is "horrible" to think "all the work that lies ahead", because "it is all black".

And she hopes that this situation "will help politicians now, before and those to come realize that they have no idea about forests and that they don't know how to do anything, since they don't clean or allow firebreaks to be built."

In this sense, he pointed out that in the municipality "there was a snowfall that caused the fall of trees that have not yet been removed."

"That's all fuel, neither climate change nor milk," he stated, and then corrected himself: "Climate change, okay, but if the mountains had been clean, this would have been much less. But now neither they have anything nor do we have us. Who is going to come now to do tourism if we have been left with nothing?

Another affected neighbor, who has found the meat in her shop rotten after having quickly abandoned it a few days ago due to the fire, has stated that "the worst is psychological."

"You look around and see that the panorama is the saddest thing in the world," she has commented.

Another Bejís resident has also spoken along these lines, stressing that he feels

because it is the place where his parents were born and "it has always been something very dear to him."

In addition, he has valued the effort of the consistory to keep the entire population up to date on the fire situation.

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