One Afternoon with a Volunteer Fire Squad: “I Told My Mother I Wasn’t Going to a Dangerous Place”
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The only thing left of the natural paradise of Filiel (León) is a sticker of a car: “FiliElParaíso”. Everything now covers a grey smoke and orange glow of fire at the feet of Mount Teleno. The emergency services maintain the war against fire that harasses the region of Maragatería. The fragility of the device of the Junta de Castilla y León has caused firefighters to have turned with the extinction of the fires even in their free time, mocking t…
Smoke is not enough to cover a decade of failed forestry policies. Castilla y León does not burn by chance, but by a management that has abandoned the rural environment and despised the common good. While thousands of hectares are consumed and thousands of neighbors are still evicted, the Junta de Castilla y León insists on throwing balloons outside. But the data, the laws and the newspaper library make clear an uncomfortable reality: the compet…
The Junta de Castilla y León declared the situation of 'alert' throughout the Community between 19 and 22 August in view of the persistence of extremely adverse weather conditions that have intensified the risk of forest fires and the situation of 'extreme alarm' in the provinces of León, Zamora and Salamanca.Read more]]>
The Health Department reports that, despite some progress, several patients remain in serious condition, with 48% of the body surface area burned in some cases.
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