The Civil Guard has evicted about twenty people on Wednesday night due to the forest fires registered in Asturias, which totals 95 simultaneous outbreaks in 35 councils.
As reported this Thursday by the Emergency Service of the Principality of Asturias (SEPA), residents of the towns of Aristebano and Caborno, in the Valdés council, have been evicted. These people are added to those evacuated yesterday in a preventive manner; an elderly woman in La Vallina (Llanes), two more people in Llaneces (Allande) and the only neighbor of the Coucellín (Tineo) farm.
The extinguishing work is focused on the western area, specifically in Tineo, Allande and Valdés, where the fire has already affected several buildings and constructions. To facilitate and direct the intervention, this morning the Advanced Command Post will be set up in the town of Navelgas (Tineo), from where the mobilized device will be coordinated.
The extinction work was hampered yesterday by strong gusts of wind and high temperatures, adverse conditions that are added to the lack of rainfall and that will foreseeably continue today.
The Military Emergency Unit has traveled with a total of 95 troops and 40 vehicles to Tineo to participate in the extinction work.
In the operation, which totals more than 500 troops, the Asturias Firefighters, the Tineo Forest Fire Reinforcement Brigade (BRIF), members of forestry companies and the natural environment nursery, as well as volunteers, municipal personnel, ranchers who have traveled with their own vats and specialists in the investigation of the origin of the fires.
The President of the Principality, Adrián Barbó, affirmed last night that most of the fires had been intentional, also assuring that there are already “presumed suspects”.
The fires are located in the councils of Allande, Aller, Amieva, Belmonte of Miranda, Boal, Cabrales, Cangas of Onís, Cangas of Narcea, Caso, Grade, Ibias, Langreo, Laviana, Lena, Llanera, Llanes, Mieres, Nava, Onís, Parres, Pilona, ??Ponga, Pravia, Chiros, Upper Bank, Riosa, Santo Hadrian, Sobrescobio, Somiedo, Teverga, Tineo, Valdés, Villaviciosa, Villayon and Yernes and Tameza.
Barbón stressed that they will act “forcefully” so that the responsible people pay “with the full weight of the law.” “Whoever lights a mountain is a criminal, a delinquent,” declared the president, who also asked for citizen collaboration to stop the wave of fires and alert 112 to any suspicion or indication of arson.
