2023-07-22 13:27:02
Updated Saturday, 22 July 2023 – 13:27
From this moment, the Cabildo de La Palma assumes the direction of the emergency
Areas affected by the fire in La PalmaMIGUEL CALEROEFEFire La Palma revives hell: “We are devastated. It is not fear. It is panic”
He La Palma fire It has been officially considered controlled at noon this Saturday. The Minister of Territorial Policy, Territorial Cohesion and Water, Manuel Mirandaresponsible for Emergencies, has announced today the good evolution of the fire, which allows it to go to Level 1 Emergency, as established in the Special Plan for Civil Protection and Emergency Attention due to Forest Fires in the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands (INFOCA).
This decision is made at the proposal of the technical director of the INFOCA Plan, after consultations and deliberations by the advisory committee and extinction management. From this moment, the Cabildo de La Palma assumes the direction of the emergencythe intervention of resources and communication to the population.
With the stabilization of the fire on Wednesday, the extinction tasks of the last days have focused on the hot spots to consolidate the perimeter and avoid regrowth, taking special care with the episode of wind registered in the islands, conditioned by the orography.
Faced with this favorable situation, the withdrawal of the media displaced to La Palma began yesterday, including the UME and the Ministry’s amphibious planes, as well as firefighters from other islands.
The fire broke out at 01:05 a.m. on Saturday, July 15, in the forest-urban interface area in El Fayalin Puntagorda, and passed to level 2 severity at 07:42 that same morning.
This fire started with a very wide front in an urban area and progressed rapidly, has affected an area of 2,900 hectaresalthough this figure may be lower, when a measurement is made at the foot of the land, since there are still unburned areas within the perimeter.
According to the criteria of The Trust Project
Know more
#Palma #fire #considered #controlled #emergency #level