The Xunta (Pladiga) anti -capital plan withdraws to the parish of Saiar, in Caldas de Reis, of high forest fire risk for this season. It is one of the most conflictive points in the southern area of Aruous and area of influence and where the spotlights of the flames that ravage Xiabre during the summer are usually originated. Thus, it was, for example, in 2022, when the fire forced to evict the DS Smith factory, in O Pousadairo, and surrounded houses in Castroagudin.
The Rural Environment Plan establishes a total of 26 PAAI (high fire risk parishes) for this year, fourteen less than 40 of 2024, corresponding five to the province of Pontevedra, according to Europa Press, and 4 to that of A Coruña, being Boiro, with two, one of the municipalities with more areas of this type throughout Galicia. One of them is that of Santa Baia, who precisely entered this list in 2024.
The criteria of rural environment technicians to call parishes as high -fire high risk is that they accumulate an annual average of seven forest fires or more in the last five years, as well as that they have suffered at least two fires that calculate more than 200 hectares during the last decade.
-Object of study in 2006
Saiar became studying by the regional administration. In 2006, the Xunta pointed out that it was the Parish of Galicia with a greater number of fires, for despair of neighbors and community members. Three years ago, in the summer of 2022, a fire originated in Saiar spread to CEA and lasted all night and part of the morning, calcining about half a thousand hectares. In 2016 and 2017 it was also the origin of important fires, which affected not only Caldas, but also Catoira and Valga.
The last of these fires led the councils of Caldas and Vilagarcía to join, together with the communities of affected mountains, to claim the major protection.
Aerial media
In addition to the drop of the Paai number, the Xunta Pladiga establishes an increase in the video surveillance network, which will have 181 cameras, four more than in 2024, in 90 locations. This system began to be installed in 2018, with 88 camcorder in 44 places, a figure that is now more than double. In addition, they will continue with the use of drones in the tasks of fighting fire. The goal of the Pladiga is that they bring less than 18,554.5 hectares in Galicia during the summer of 2025. Last year, there were 2,664.7, with a historical minimum of 755 fires. Likewise, the Pladiga marks as specific objectives for this year the review of the municipal plans and develop agreements for the constitution of prevention brigades in municipalities of municipalities for six months a year, as well as to prepare plans for the six national parks in Galician territory, such as those of Cortadada and Sálvora. As for the air media, they remain in about thirty at high risk. There will be 20 of the Xunta (14 helicopters and six cargo aircraft on land) and between 9 and 10 state aircraft (five of them aircraft). The Galician mountains will also be monitored by 5,199 people during the summer campaign, between the media, the Spanish government and the municipalities.
