Good news from Tàrbenas. Emergencies of the Valencian Community have requested the demobilization of the UME due to the “good evolution” of the fire, as well as to demobilize the Advanced Command Post truck and the Emergency SATCOM communications vehicle. The stable situation of the fire that broke out last Sunday allows us to move to situation 1 and therefore call off the Integrated Operational Coordination Center.
Late yesterday afternoon, the 182 residents who had to abandon their homes due to the fire were allowed to relocate. However, last night 120 personnel remained working on the ground: forest firefighters, the Alicante fire brigade consortium and UME, mainly on the right flank in the southern area, which is the tail of the fire, as it is where reproductions had occurred on a recurring basis.
Emergencies highlighted that in the area there is a lot of unburned area, “a lot of fuel, very dry.” The ease with which this biomass can catch fire is one of the concerns, since this Wednesday the province of Alicante continues to maintain extreme risk of forest fire due to high temperatures.
Meanwhile, this is the second day without authorized agricultural burning, a measure that farmers have harshly criticized. AVA-ASAJA, for its part, described as “counterproductive” the Generalitat’s decision to prohibit “generally and without nuances” agricultural burning until October 16. According to the president of AVA-ASAJA, Cristóbal Aguado, “leaving pruning remains drying for six months is a tinderbox and this measure, as it is written, can be worse than the disease by generating more fires in rural areas than what is expected.” “They want to prevent themselves.”
LA UNIÓ Llauradora i Ramadera also joins these criticisms and asks that a system be established so that, based on what the Pre-Emergency Level of the Generalitat Valenciana says, burning can be done wherever the fire risk is low/medium level, since it can even be consulted at the level of each municipality.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Justice and the Interior is studying, together with the Ministry of Agriculture, alternatives to this suspension, as explained yesterday by Minister Elisa Núñez at the press conference after the Council’s Plenary Session held in Valencia.
