US EditionWinds and Heat Intensify Wildfires in Spain’s León Province
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About 1,400 people have been evicted this Sunday from several towns in the Lioness region of El Bierzo and in the north of the province of Zamora as they are threatened by the flames. At least eight fires have been unleashed in the province of León this weekend, which are affecting areas of high cultural and landscape value such as Las Médulas, a World Heritage Site. Although the front in this last accident had managed to stop in the morning, th…
León burns: Wildfires hit critical levels
The province of León is battling multiple wildfires that have escalated to critical levels, provoking heightened emergency responses. The scene is of hellish destruction, most of which suddenly flared up on the evening of Saturday, August 9. On Saturday night, August 9, the Junta de Castilla y León raised the severity level to IGR 2 for two major fires in the El Bierzo region: Yeres and Llamas… Source
The serious situation of the fires in León keeps many districts of the province on alert after the Junta de Castilla y León has activated the Potential Gravity Index (IGR) 2 in three fires that ravage the region of Bierzo. To the fires of Flames of Cabrera and Yeres, where the flames threaten urban centers and large areas of wooded masses, has been added this Sunday the fire declared at 12.00 h in Villaverde de los Cestos, town belonging to the …
The Junta gathered Cecopi in the early morning, after the government mobilized dozens of troops, from UME military and vehicles, forest firefighters, extinction helicopters and Civil Guard, to help extinguish the flames.
If Saturday was complicated for the province of León with up to five fires of some gravity, the night became more complicated when two of them, both in the region of Bierzo, made it necessary to activate the Index of Gravity 2 because of the risk to both the population and to protected goods. Specifically, the flames forced to evict several dozens of residents of the Pedanía de Yeres, belonging to the municipality of Puente Domingo Flórez. The s…
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