All of Spain is found on Friday August 15 on a heat wave and the firefront continues to worry the authorities, especially since the meteorological agency has issued a risk of risk “Very high at extreme” for a large part of the country.
The peninsula remains on a heat wave alert for the thirteenth day in a row and even Cantabrie, the northern region, hitherto spared, will experience a peak of temperatures that can exceed 40 ° C, announced the national meteorological agency AEMET, warning against the risk of fires “Very high or extreme in most of the country (…) Until Monday “.
The country is experiencing a very intense fire season with 157,501 hectares already reduced to ashes since the start of the year according to the European Information System on Forest Fires (Effis). However, we are still far from the 306,000 hectares who left for smoke in 2022. Spain recorded three deaths in these fires, including two young volunteers thirty-something who died while trying to turn off the fire in Castile-et-Léon (northwest) where a dozen fires remain very active.
Marcos Raton works on a pig farm in Sestnandez de Tabara, near one of the fires that led to the evacuation of several thousand inhabitants. When he and his friends saw the fire arrive on Tuesday, they took backpacks, firebags, watering pipes, put “Appropriate clothes and [sont allés] There to give a hand “tells Marcos Raton to the France-Presse agency.
A great “helplessness”
“Barely arrived, we started to see people burned, a car in flames, a burned tractor, warehouses, garages …”explains the thirties who felt a large “Impotence”. Convinced that there was no more “Nothing to burn” After the devastating fires of 2022 in the region, he now says he is convinced that “It will continue to [leur] arrive year after year “ and find that the population is “Abandoned”.
Angel Roman, mayor of Ferreruela, a close commune, believes that it should be proceeded “A general cleaning around all the villages, to form a safety strip”notably “Brush and clean around houses”.
In this context, the two main parties, the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) and the People’s Party (PP), are rocked on the management of fires, in a country where their extinction is in principle of the competence of the regions, the central government only intervening in the event of a large -scale claim.
The PP accuses the government of having reduced the air means, while the PSOE denies it and criticizes the opposition leaders “Absent” Field, reproaching some for being on vacation while their region is plagued by flames.
