The Malaga fire goes to level 2: “It is a hungry and extremely voracious monster”

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Alejandro García, deputy director of the CORP Infoca regional, has raised the Malaga fire to level 2 due to the seriousness of the matter this very Friday morning. The coordination of the media now passes to the regional command and the door is opened to the use of means external to the Infoca Plan.

For now, García has assured, they do not need the help of the Emergency Military Unit (UME) but if the urgent support of heavy and aerial means to quell the fire that has already affected 3,000 hectares of the area. Some 350 troops by land are working on the confinement of the fire prior to its difficult extinction.

“What we have is a hungry monster. They are extremely ravenous fires“, has pointed out the deputy director of the regional CORP Infoca, who already speaks of the” most complicated fire in a long time in Andalusia “.

On the morning of this Friday, the current focus is on the devastating forest fire in the Malaga area of Sierra Bermeja and Jubrique. Those evicted in a preventive way as a result of the forest fire declared last Wednesday in Sierra Bermeja and that affects several Malaga municipalities, amounts to more than 1,000, as reported by the Emergency 112 Andalusia system.

Specifically, the evacuees are residents of the areas of Forest Hill and Abejeras (Estepona) and around fifteen of them are housed in the Pavilion of the Carmen of Estepona where they are being assisted in everything necessary. You can follow all the news about the evolution of fire in this direct from EL ESPAÑOL de Málaga:

10:40 – LThe Minister of the Environment, Carmen Crespo, has assured that the place where the fire was declared, together with the circumstances, indicates that the fire “has been intentional”.

10:25- LCouncilors of the Interior and Agriculture have activated level 2 of the Emergency Plan for Forest Fires of Andalusia for whose extinction it is necessary to incorporate extraordinary state media.

10:18 – More than 350 professionals by land, with 14 heavy vehicles and 22 aerial means make up the extinguishing device that works at this time to stabilize the Forest fire.

9:28 – 300 firefighters by land continue this Friday fighting the fire in Sierra Bermeja. The fire has affected some 3,600 hectares so far.

8:00 – About 419 troops they work on the deployment of this fire. The forest fire extinguishing device of the Infoca Plan has mobilized 300 troops by land, 12 fire trucks and 29 aerial means that have begun to work again with the clear of day.

7:55 – The Infoca reports this Friday morning that this morning its work has focused to contain the second focus on the road that goes up from Estepona to Peñas Blancas with technical fire and in keeping the area of Jubrique and Genalguacil.

7:29 – The second night of work in Sierra Bermeja has ended without new evictions, as reported by the Civil Protection operation of the Infoca Plan. More than 250 professionals from all over Andalusia and 13 heavy vehicles have worked at dawn to extinguish the fire in the Sierra Bermeja area declared two days ago.

21:46 – The president of the Government, Pedro Sanchez, has expressed his condolences to the family and colleagues of the forest firefighter who died this Thursday while working on firefighting tasks.

21:20 – The saddest news of the day. A firefighter has died while fighting the fire. CMH was 44 years old, had been professionals for 6 years and belonged to the Almería checkpoint. Rest in peace.

20:45 – The fire forms a column of smoke from about 500 kilometers that you see even from space.

20:30 – The operation to extinguish the fire is already almost 400 people.

20:00 – “We continue unsupported next to the Hotel Sierra “, insists the mayor of Genalguacil.

19:25 – The mayor of Genalguacil, very concerned about how the fire is approaching his town: “Aren’t we a priority? We need media!”, has tweeted

19:10 – Are already 939 people who have been evicted by fire. Most are from the Estepona municipal area; 750 from the Forest Hill and Abejeras Urbanization, 37 from Disseminado Peñas Blancas Carretera MA-8310, 12 from Charca de la Extranjera and 60 from Huerta Padrón. The remaining 80 are from the Montemayor Urbanization in Benahavís, Infoca reports.

19:00 – The Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Sustainable Development highlights the fight against the clock of the aerial means, they won’t be able to fly in the dead of night.

18:40 – It has been vehicle flow restored in the area of ​​the AP-7 where it had been cut.

18:20 – The images who is sharing the INFOCA profile are truly shocking.

18:00 – The Andalusian Fire Prevention and Extinction Plan (INFOCA) informs on its Twitter account that they are centered on the left flank. The objective is that the flames do not finish exceeding the firewall that protects an important forest in the municipality of Benahavís.

17:15 – The AP-7 at kilometer 160 in the Malaga municipality of Estepona has had to be closed to traffic again both ways due to forest fire.

From the Emergency 112 Andalusia system, they have advocated driving with caution and following the indications of panels and operations in the area. It should be remembered that the MA-8301 and MA-8302 roads are still closed to circulation.

16:30 – The device deployed by Infoca at this time in the afternoon is made up of uUS 200 professionals by land, with 9 heavy vehicles and 26 air vehicles.



Reference-www.elespanol.com

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