The fire in Spain remains out of the control of more than 700 workers on the ground in the Spanish region of Castellón and forced the evacuation of two thousand inhabitants in the Valencian Community and another 250 in the Aragón area, where the flames are now advancing. against strong southerly winds.
According to local government officials at the operations command post, quoted by El País, the fire is advancing with great voracity, which makes the work on the ground “greatly complex”, with weather conditions typical of the beginning of summer. The fire started 48 hours ago and is still far from being extinguished, but during the day the perimeter was stabilized with the help of 20 planes in an area of 35 kilometers.
The flames reached the Teruel border and destroyed more than four thousand hectares of forest.
Around here, the Minister of the Interior Administration, José Luís Carneiro, has revealed in Gondomar that the Government has made national means of assistance available to help fight the fire that is taking place in the Valencian Community.
This is the first big fire of the year in Spain, and it is still not clear what could have caused it.
In 2022, 493 fires destroyed a record 307,000 hectares of land in Spain.
Source: TSF
