Huelva Fire Shows Positive Signs, with 'Large Part' of the Flanks 'without Active Fire Front'
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The fire in Niebla, declared on 6 August last year and which is on the way to becoming, by extension, the worst environmental tragedy of this kind in Andalusia, has entered today for the first time in the containment phase. The operation has managed to "encourage" the flames in a single active area of the eastern sector, so it has left behind the worrying situation of "out of extinction capacity", a fire that has for the moment already exceeded …
Huelva concentrates the other two fires that more hectares have calcined in the region this century: Riotinto in 2004 and Almonaster in 2020. After several days without "extinction capacity", the northern flank has been controlled and the area that affects Seville remains to be contained. More information: The Niebla fire exceeds the 30,000 hectares affected but the first evicted ones return to their homes.
The fire has traveled some 38,000 hectares, although counselor Antonio Sanz believes that the burned surface will be smaller. «Save the houses, do not have...
The forecast wind between 18:00 and 00:00 hours can condition the evolution of the fire.
The eastern sector is "the most active area" and where "the greatest efforts" are concentrated, especially on the fronts of the road from Aznalcóllar to El Alamo and towards El Castillo de las Guardas
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