The Xunta Admits that the Device Is Overflowing and "Starts to Unravel" by the Number of Fires
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The Xeral Director of Defensa do Monte asks "understanding" the neighbors who complain that they do not receive help from seeing their homes threatened and maintains that the reason is that the media are in areas that are at even greater riskDesolation at the foot of burnt land in Ourense: "We were absolutely alone" The Xeral Director of Defensa do Monte, Manuel Rodríguez, admits that the device to fight the fires is falling short in Ourense. Th…
Never was a situation suffered by forest fires such as the one suffered by the province of Ourense these days, without guessing the end of a catastrophe that will exhaust the qualifiers. On Friday the Xunta de Galicia raised to a minimum 40,000 hectares the area devastated by the large active and uncontrolled fires, mountain ranges of tens of kilometers that surround numerous localities, that loom like monsters and threaten to find themselves on…
The Galician Xunta has warned that the autonomic emergency services are overtaken by the severity of the fires in the region and has called for more state means to combat the flames. The regional president, Alfonso Rueda, has demanded that the central government send more means to Galicia, those that are available, in view of the “complicated” situation that, according to him, will continue to be recorded in relation to forest fires due to high …
The area burned in the province of Ourense exceeds 31,000 hectares, with 11,000 hectares in...


The flames spread across the southeast of Ourense at a dizzying speed and in a single day the area burned by fires has already doubled this summer, exceeding 31,700 hectares. The advance of the fire is unstoppable and the dense smoke it causes is complicating the work of extinction and preventing the use of aerial means. Within 24 hours, 15,400 hectares burned, six times more than the calcined during the whole last year. The rate of devastation …
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