Almost 180 prisoners evacuated. While a large fire fills part of the state of Colorado, in the United States, the authorities announced this Saturday, August 9, the transfer as a precaution of the prisoners of the Correctional Center of the Rifle, a minimal security establishment.
Given the importance of winds and low moisture, the inhabitants of the area are invited to prepare to leave, informs the American Media NBC this Monday, August 11.
“The 179 imprisoned people were transferred to the Buena Vista Correctional complex, outside the area affected by the fire. The medical staff is on the site and injuries were not reported,” a statement from the Colorado Correctional Service read.
And to add: “The staff is still in the place and collaborates with the local and state management authorities to establish measures prior to the evacuation to protect the establishment and the goods.”
All detainees were transferred to the Buena Vista Correctional complex, 240 kilometers.
The sixth largest fire in Colorado
This Monday, August 11, the American press informs more than 420 square kilometers affected by the flames in the Garfield and Río Blanco counties, in which experts have already described as “sixth largest fire in the state of Colorado.” At the local level, some inhabitants of these areas are confined, 6% of the population.
In the east of the State, firefighters must fight against climatic conditions in favor of fire development, triggered a few days before by lightning.
At the moment, injuries should not be deplored and structural damage has not been reported. Since its outbreak, more than a thousand firefighters have fought against this fire on several fronts at the same time.
This Friday, Tyler Nathe, Operations Manager of the Rocky Incident Management Team, announced that Fire was beginning to create its own weather system.
“Pyrocumulus”, present at 9,000 meters above sea level, are formed when soil temperature is very important. “Therefore, they form incoming and additional winds at the ground level, which intensified the behavior of the fire,” explains the expert, cited by The Independent.
A incendiary summer in the United States
This fire remembers the Megafeu who has devastated part of the Grand Canyon for more than a month. As American Press reports, many states are plagued by flames.
This is also the case of southern California, which has known its most important fire since the beginning of the year and in which three firefighters were injured, including a main victim of the battalion of a fall in its truck on steep land.
Source: BFM TV
