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Spain lifts lockdown as forest fire eases
Spanish authorities lifted lockdown measures for thousands of villagers in the northeastern Catalonia region on Wednesday as firefighters began taming a forest fire raging for a third day. The blaze that started on Monday has burned more than 3,300 hectares (8,154 acres) in Tarragona province, with the protected Els Ports natural park making up around one-third of the affected area, Catalan countryside rangers said. A stay-at-home order for arou…
«When we saw the fire on the road , we expected the worst», he tells ABC Susi Gómez, a volunteer for the protector of the Ark for 15 years. He does it between sighs of relief and some tear from the tension accumulated during the last two days, in which he has barely hit an eye. The motive, the fire that has calcined more than 3,300 hectares in the south of Tarragona . And, in his case, for the 130 dogs in danger by the flames.
The fire, which ravaged more than 3,200 hectares in southern Catalonia and forced the containment of 18,000 inhabitants of the province of Tarragona, is stabilized but remains active. Firefighters' extinction efforts depend on weather conditions.
Spain lives another day of fires that began last Monday in the town of Paüls in Tarragona which continues at this time and that has burned a total of 3,200 hectares of land and in which more than 460 troops have intervened including firefighters, the Military Emergency Unit (UME), forestry personnel and air assets of other communities with the objective of stabilizing the fire.It may interest you: Libertarians and authoritarians From all the aff…
The head of intervention of the Bombers of the Generalitat, Joan Rovira, said this Wednesday that 90% of the perimeter of the fire in Paüls (Tarragona) is stabilized and that there are still “a few hours” to be able to give the fire for stabilized, given that there are two points of difficult access. “They are two points, one on the side of Paüls, in the umbria, and one on the area of Les Portelles, on the road that goes to El Prat del Comte. Th…
The fire in Els Ports Park remains active after an intense night of fighting the fire, although the Firefighters trust to stabilize it throughout this WednesdayThe fire in the natural park of Els Ports (Tarragona) razes 3,100 hectares and forces to confine 18,000 people favorable evolution.The Firefighters have worked throughout the morning against the great fire that affects the region of Baix Ebre (Tarragona), which has burned 3,300 hectares, …
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