Huércal de Almería (Almería), 3 (Europa Press)
The Minister of the Presidency, Interior, Social Dialogue and Administrative Simplification, Antonio Sanz, has activated late this Saturday, at 22.37 hours, the pre -emergence phase, operational situation 0, of the emergency plan in the face of the risk of forest fires in Andalusia by the fire declared during the last morning in the place The Pocico de Huércal de Almería.
Facing at night, the Forest Fire Extinction Service, Infoca Plan, has resigned its device to brew against the fire. As reported in ‘X’, the media that will work in the next few hours against fire will be six groups of forest firefighters, two operations technicians, three environmental agents and three pumper trucks.
The fall of lightning has motivated the fire, in whose stabilization they have come to work last afternoon and three helicopters deployed by infoca. Specifically, minutes before 4:00 p.m. the service redoubled the means in the fight against fire, forced by wind changes. Thus, the device became made up of three helicopters (one semi -sheds and two superpuma), eight forest fire groups, four fire reinforcement brigades (Brica), five operations technicians, three environmental agents and a pumper truck.
First thing in the morning, the Infoca transferred that, in the stabilization of this fire, declared at 05.30 hours, a semi -married helicopter worked, four forest fire groups, an operations technician, an environmental agent and a pumper truck.
This is a place of high water stress, sources of the service explained to Europa Press, which they added during the afternoon that the strong wind had increased the intensity of the fire.
