The Bejís fire is still active after destroying 19,000 hectares – RTVE

The forest fires in Bejís (Castellón) and Vall d’Ebo (Alicante) continue to be active, although the latter is already stabilized. In Bejís, where the flames have devastated 20,000 hectares in a perimeter of 150 km, the work to extinguish the forest fire has evolved “favorably” this Friday by managing to stop the access of the flames to the Serra Calderona, although there are three hot spots with risk of “some important regrowth” and the evolution of time worries. Given the positive evolution of the Vall d’Ebo fire, which has burned more than 12,000 hectares since Saturday, it has been possible to allocate more resources to the fire declared in Bejís. In this way, the troops have managed to stop the virulent advance of the flames on the southern flank towards the Sierra Calderona Natural Park and the Cueva Santa de Altura Sanctuary has not been damaged, although the entire environment is burned. As explained by the President of the Valencian Government, Ximo Puig, there have been no permanent changes in the wind, but this Saturday the temperatures will rise again and there may be outbreaks or dry storms with lightning that can start a new focus. The confinement of Alcubla is partially lifted and four other municipalities remain evicted The municipalities of Bejís, Torás, Teresa and Sacañet will continue to be evicted until a new evaluation is carried out on Saturday, since security cannot yet be guaranteed, as explained by the Minister of Justice, Gabriela Bravo in statements collected by Efe. However, several neighbors have skipped the eviction of their populations to access their homes through forest tracks, skipping the Civil Guard controls. In the case of the nearby Valencian town of Alcublas, the confinement has been partially lifted. “��Discharge of water from an AT on the #IFValldEbo, stabilized. The workload of these planes, which carry 4,500 liters of water, is essential. They require great coordination and precision skills.#LosDeAmarillo #BombersForestals pic.twitter.com/yyc3r2NvSl“ — Servei Bomber(e)s Forestals GVA (@GVAsgise) August 19, 2022 The management of the Bejís fire has asked the Red Cross to installation of a shelter in the Multipurpose Center of Villar del Arzobispo (Valencia) to accommodate the evicted residents of the three districts. The Villar del Arzobispo City Council itself has reported through its social networks that the municipality will also host members of the UME at the IES La Serranía in the coming days. More than forty aerial resources deployed in CastellónMore than 40 aerial resources and 300 ground troops have been deployed since dawn to extinguish the Bejís fire, after favorable weather conditions overnight, with low temperatures and light winds constant northwest component, according to Emergencies. Last night, only land resources worked (between forest firefighters from the Generalitat, crews from the consortiums of Castellón and Valencia, and members of the Military Emergency Unit) and since 7:30 a.m. been incorporating, among others, twelve aerial means of the Generalitat, twenty of the Ministry of Ecological Transition and three of the Government of Aragon. “�� Sample of the virulence of the #IFBejís against which the extinction services have been fighting for days. pic.twitter.com/3KwanGbmnH“- Emergències 112CV (@GVA112) August 19, 2022Meanwhile, the Judicial Police of the Civil Guard and Renfe continue to investigate the incident recorded with the medium-distance train that was cornered by the Bejís fire last Tuesday, which occurred when a dozen people decided to leave the train due to the proximity of the flames and were injured, three of them seriously. Two of those injured in the train incident have been discharged from hospital, according to informed the Ministry of Health. It is a 15-year-old adolescent and a 24-year-old woman, both admitted to the La Fe Hospital in Valencia. Therefore, four people are still hospitalized, three of them in this same center: a 62-year-old woman in serious condition; a 43-year-old with an equally serious prognosis and a 48-year-old man with a guarded prognosis. A 30-year-old woman who suffered an ankle fracture is still hospitalized in the General de València. Four injured in the Bejís train incident remain hospitalized while the investigations continue The Minister of Science and Innovation, Diana Morant, has assured this Friday in statements from the Delegation of the Government of the Valencian Community, that the Executive of Spain is going to contribute ” with total transparency, all the information necessary to clarify the train incident” and has defended that the decisions made at that time by the train driver were “the right ones” when she found herself in a situation in which there were indications of having a fire nearby. Sources from the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) in the Valencian Community have explained to EFE that this year there have been several factors that have given rise to weaker changes in wind, and therefore less stable: a warm sea, which It makes the formation of breezes difficult, and the lack of rain, since it has not rained in the Valencian region since last May 3. Confinement of Olocau due to another fireIn the municipality of Olocau (Valencia), in a game located within the Sierra Calderona natural park, another forest fire has been declared that is already stabilized and without flame and from which the two aerial means, as reported by Emergencies of the Generalitat Valenciana. Early this morning, the preventive confinement of this town of 2,000 inhabitants of the Camp de Túria region (located southeast of the aforementioned natural park) was decreed at the request of the mayor due to the fire, which could have been caused by a latent lightning . “��Fires | The Bejís fire is still out of control and moving south ▪️ This morning another fire broke out in the Olocau area: the smoke has led to the preventive confinement of the townJosé Andrés Castellano (@RTVEValencia)https://t.co/ BoUUNPrTIJ pic.twitter.com/1gSzqOvBGr“ — Las Mañanas de RNE (@LasMananas_rne) August 19, 2022Puig has said that the Olocau fire has “some stabilization”, which allows for “moderate optimism”, since the extinction of a The fire depends, to a great extent, on the weather and we will have to see how it evolves. Another of the fires that broke out last weekend, located in the area of ​​Les Useres, in the interior of the province of Castellón, has been caused by extinct after having devastated some 800 hectares. A recovery plan for the affected territories The regions of Marina Alta (Alicante) and Alto Palancia (Castellón), where the Vall d’Ebo and Bejís fires have occurred, respectively, will have extraordinary plans that allow economic recovery and social security of these territories, once the tragedy is over, according to the president of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, after meeting with the social agents. Regeneration: the keys to helping nature recover what was burned In addition, the Alicante Provincial Council will urgently activate an extraordinary aid package to support the municipalities affected by the fire declared last week in the Vall d’Ebo. This was decided this Friday at a meeting of the government team, made up of PP and Cs, held at the Provincial Palace, to establish the first measures aimed at repairing damage to public infrastructure as soon as possible, as well as providing technical advisory services, according to informs the Diputación in a statement. 24 hours – “The traditional abandonment of the mountain complicates the capacity of extinction” – Listen now The farmers of Benimassot, one of the Alicante municipalities that was evicted by the Vall d’Ebo forest fire, have considered this Friday that the gradual abandonment of terraces and crops due to rural depopulation and the difficulties of living from agriculture has contributed to the fact that this fire has spread so much.