The title seems something frivolous but I have not occurred to me anything better to get the attention that until the next fall the … Monte Valenciano is at risk, that is, we are all. And the Devesa of El Saler is no exception to that danger.
Yesterday morning dawned with the news that Valencia had activated the so -called water cannons in the Saler, that is, that he responded to the red alert for high temperatures with a good spray of water on the pinada. It is the best way to prevent and, being so striking, putting neighbors and visitors also in tension.
The City Council has eight canyons that can launch 2,996 liters of water per minutes, from heights ranging from 12 to 16 meters, depending on the trees of the environment. In addition, firefighters have 16 portable cannons that are mounted on tripods. This reinforcement uses one of the best hydrants systems that exists in a forest of these characteristics, a mesh that makes water available to extinction services every few meters.
Thus, we could say that we are calm, although with the fire you can never be. The City Council has in competition the installation of three more cannons for 171,000 euros on the Gola del Puchol Avenue, which ends where the old Sidi Saler is still built, waiting for the demolition that many we want. With towers up to 14 meters high, the same tank of 500 cubic meters will be served.
In recent years I have heard experts say that forest fires can occur “out of season” with the same risk, although it is evident that now the mountain begins to dry due to the lack of rainfall. Precipitation in spring have made the bushes grow as never and, above all, the damage of the Dana have served to trigger the risk. In some places in the province, extinction services literally could not pass by the roads.
Gravity is not such in Valencia, although in recent years we have witnessed numerous fireproofs, mostly intentional. A recent condemnation could lead us to think that the problem is solved. Nothing is further from reality.
To conserve and improve the Devesa of El Saler is one of the first obligations of any municipal government. Someone could cross out this statement of exaggerated compared to other issues but my experience is inclined to think that it has always been. Hence, welcome is the new investment for the fire prevention and extinction system, as well as encouraging it to be better and better. The impact of the DANA has been terrible in the albufera, where a good part of the municipal efforts have been focused, but there is more projects for the regeneration of dunar, mawed laces, forest tracks and the execution of the slope demolition. The entire totality depends on the approval of the demarcation of coasts, so an understanding of the new demarcation proposed by the ministry in the southern part of the Puchol Golo would be good.
Everything needs adequate coordination among public administrations, but I dare to say that in coastal projects such as Valencia is indispensable. I speak of El Saler, Pinedo and also El Perellonet, but I don’t want to leave out the necessary reform of the Paseo Marítimo de las Playas del Cabanyal and La Malvarrosa. At the moment they are not understood with the monument to Joaquín Sorolla.
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