Asturias has activated level 2 alert of the Principality's Fire Protection Plan (INFOPA) this afternoon and has required the support of three Forest Fire Reinforcement Brigades (BRIF) as it has 18 active fires or under review in fourteen municipalities, one of which threatens to reach four towns located in the vicinity of Oviedo.
Specifically, a fire declared this Saturday in the council of Las Regueras threatens to reach several houses in the towns of Soto, Bolgues and Pereda, as well as Ablanosa, located in the neighboring municipality of Candamo, as reported by the Emergency Service. of the Principality (SEPA).
Two hours after the Principality activated INFOPA level 1, the regional government decided to raise the alert level one more level due to the numerous fires that have been declared throughout a day with a total absence of rain and high temperatures, and especially because of the Las Regueras fire.
Phase 1 of INFOPA is activated when the fires require common means, procedures and protocols for their extinction, and the application of special operations, while phase 2 is launched when the fire can seriously affect the population and is need the help of extraordinary means.
The BRIF from Tabuyo has traveled from León to Las Regueras, which is where the most worrying fire is located, to fight the flames together with firefighters from the central park of La Morgal and Pravia, as well as personnel from a forestry company and various aerial means, including a seaplane.
The Principality has also requested the support of the BRIF based in Tineo, which is acting together with firefighters from Cangas de Onís in a fire declared in Alea (Ribadesella).
A third BRIF, in this case the one from Ruente, has traveled from Cantabria to support the extinction efforts in Riopinoso, in the Valdés council, where firefighters from Parres, Tineo and Civil Protection volunteers have also traveled.
An extinction helicopter is also working in this same council to fight the fires declared in Biescas and Ferrera, where firefighters from Valdés and Barres have also traveled.
Another helicopter and firefighters from Llanes and Cangas de Onís work on the fire declared in Aballe, in the Parres council, where there is another focus in Dego that is being addressed by personnel from a forestry cooperative.
Fire teams from Cangas del Narcea work on two fires that are active in Espinaredo and Foyedo, in Tineo, a municipality in southwestern Asturias where another fire is under review, in the Lavadoira area.
There are several active outbreaks in the councils of Cabrales, Cangas del Narcea and Navia, as well as several more under review in Villayón, Piloña, Navia, Llanes, Laviana and Grado.
The Principality had placed INFOPA in phase zero last Sunday, due to weather conditions that helped put an end to the wave of fires that the community had been experiencing since March 23 and which, according to initial estimates, could have burned some 20,000 hectares. .
The risk of forest fires being declared in Asturias this Sunday will continue to be "extreme" in 30 councils in the southwest, mountains, Picos de Europa and part of the eastern coast, while it will remain "very high" in another 41 municipalities of the Principality of Asturias .
The seven councils of the westernmost end of the Principality will be the only ones that will remain at "high" risk, according to the indicator that the General Directorate of Rural and Forest Infrastructures prepares daily.
The risk will be reduced compared to this Saturday, a day in which the risk is extreme in 51 municipalities, "very high" in another 20 and "high" in the seven in the far west.
Cantabria registers at the last minute of this Saturday ten active fires of the 16 that have been caused in the last 24 hours in the autonomous community.
The active fires are in the towns of Arredondo (2), Miera, Soba, Cabuérniga, Riotuerto, Herrerías, Santa María de Cayón, Vega de Pas and Molledo, where after 8:00 p.m. the operation to prevent and fight the forest fires in Cantabria was extinction and stabilization work.
According to the report released by the Cantabrian Executive at 7:45 p.m., those ten active fires -six more than in the last balance- bring to 39 those registered in these eight days of April in Cantabria.
In addition, the level 2 alert for forest fires remains active throughout the region and the prohibition of burning.
The operation of the General Directorate of Biodiversity, Environment and Climate Change of the Ministry of the Environment deployed these days is made up of more than 400 people including agents of the Natural Environment, crews of forest firefighters, technicians on duty and broadcasters.
In addition, they have the collaboration of the Forest Fire Reinforcement Brigade (BRIF), sent by the Ministry for Ecological Transition as every year at this time, based at the Jaedo heliport, in Ruente, and staff from the General Directorate of the Interior.
The Cantabrian Executive has called to "end the social complicity that protects arsonists, whose acts cause serious environmental and economic damage and pose a risk to public health and people's lives."
It has also asked citizens to identify these people, avoid risky practices and collaborate with the authorities to report any signs of fire.
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