The Emergency Service of the Principality of Asturias (SEPA) has reported a total of 95 simultaneous forest fires in different councils of Asturias, which have caused the eviction of about twenty residents. The evictions have been carried out in the towns of Aristophanes and Cabornus, in the council of Valdés, and join the preventive evacuation carried out yesterday of an elderly woman in La Vallina (Llanes), two more people in Llaneces (Allande) and the only resident of the Coucellín (Tineo) farm.
The extinction work is focused on the western area in localized fires in Tineo, Allande and Valdés, where they carried out the evictions while the fire has affected various buildings and constructions in various councils. The extinction work was hampered on Wednesday by strong gusts of wind and high temperatures, adverse conditions that are expected to continue this Thursday.
Los fires in Asturias 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 and Tameza. (EFE)