A brigade member who was fighting a fire in Zamora dies

A manguerista of a pumper has died late on Sunday afternoon in Ferreruela de Tábara (Zamora) in a forest fire that had been declared hours before in Losacio and that spread very quickly due to high temperature weather conditions and low humidity and dryness of the ground. The deceased, a member of the extinction operation of the Junta de Castilla y León, is Daniel Muñoz Varas, born in 1959 and a resident of Ferreras de Abajo (Zamora), married with two daughters. This member of the extinction operation went to put out the flames when he was trapped by them while his brigade mates managed to flee precipitously from a fire that became very virulent. The fire has also forced the eviction of five municipalities with a total of 1,500 inhabitants, half of them residents of Tábara, the main town in the region, who have been transferred to the pavilion of the Municipal Sports City of Zamora to spend the night while the from other towns have been housed in Carbajales de Alba. Among the evacuated towns, in addition to Tábara, are Ferreruela de Tábara, Sesnández, San Martín de Tábara and Olmillos de Castro. Mourning in Castilla y León The Junta de Castilla y León has declared official mourning this Monday in the autonomous community after offering its condolences to family and friends for “the sad event” that occurred. In a statement, the regional government “regrets the death in act of service of Daniel Muñoz Varas, a worker of the Public Fire Operative when he was doing extinction work in the Losacio fire, province of Zamora.” Mañueco, “overwhelmed” The President of the Board, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, has been “overwhelmed” by the death in act of service of the brigade member while fighting the Losacio fire. Mañueco announces on his Twitter account that “as a sign of respect and as a sign of pain, from the Board we declare official mourning tomorrow.” «My deep affection and total support to his family and colleagues. Rest in Peace », he concludes.