The Civil Guard has evicted last night a score of people by the forest fires registered in Asturias, which adds 95 simultaneous foci in 35 councils, reported Thursday the Emergency Service of the Principality of Asturias (SEPA).
The evictions have been carried out in the towns of Aristebano and Caborno, in the council of Valdés, and are added to the preventive evacuation carried out yesterday of an elderly woman in La Vallina (Llanes), two more people in Llaneces (Allande) and the only neighbor of the Coucellín farmhouse (Tineo).
The extinction work focuses on the western zone in the fires located Tineo, Allande and Valdés, where they carried out the evictions while the fire has affected various buildings and constructions in various councils.
To coordinate and direct the intervention in the area, this morning the Advanced Command Post will be constituted in the town of Navelgas (Tineo), from where the mobilized device will be coordinated.
The fires are located in the councils of Allande, Aller, Amieva, Belmonte de Miranda, Boal, Cabrales, Cangas de Onís, Cangas del Narcea, Caso, Grado, Ibias, Langreo, Laviana, Lena, Llanera, Llanes, Mieres, Nava, Onís, Parres, Piloña, Ponga, Pravia, Quirós, Ribera de Arriba, Riosa, Santo Adriano, Sobrescobio, Somiedo, Teverga, Tineo, Valdés, Villaviciosa, Villayón and Yernes y Tameza.
The work of extinction was hindered yesterday by the strong gusts of wind and high temperatures, adverse conditions that are expected to continue today.
The Military Emergency Unit moved yesterday from its base in Leon to Tineo to participate in the extinction work, with a total of 95 troops and 40 vehicles.
In the operation, which totals more than 500 troops, also work the Firefighters of Asturias, the Forest Fire Reinforcement Brigade (BRIF) of Tineo, members of forestry companies and the nursery of the natural environment, as well as volunteers, municipal staff, farmers who have moved with their own vats and specialists in the investigation of the origin of the fires.
In this regard, the president of the Principality, Adrián Barbó, said last night that most of the fires had been intentional and, in fact, assured that there are already "presumed suspects" of causing the fires.
Barbón stressed that he will act with "forcefulness" so that the people responsible pay "with the full weight of the law" because "whoever lights a mountain is a criminal, a criminal", while asking for citizen collaboration to stop the wave of fires and alert 112 to any suspicion or indication of intentional fire.
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