The forest fire that was declared late Monday at the Barranco de Las Cinco Villas, south of the province of Ávila, It is becoming more and more due to wind, orography and fueland face the “most complicated” hours of the day.
The technical director of Extinction, Ángel Iglesias, has recognized the journalists that The situation is quite complicated for a device that far exceeds 300 people and that has numerous means among which sixteen aerial stand out, to try to stop the flames that advance in the direction of El Arenal.
Churches, which has calculated in about 500 hectares that may have burned in this area Especially sensitive from the province of Ávila from the environmental point of view, he stressed that the work in the ‘head’ of the fire have many difficulties, before the “three very complex factors that have been aligned“, In reference to the orography of the terrain, the wind and the fuel.
In this sense, he has recognized that Any direct action on the fire is “practically impossible”so that the device displayed in the area tries to organize an indirect attack to contain the flames in a safe perimeter, since there are secondary and constant spotlights.
Although no changes in the direction of the wind are planned, which now pushes the flames in the direction of the municipality of El Arenal, The technical director of extinction has admitted that “reality is not very flattering” and “is not simple.”
“We have a lot of fire ahead“Manuel Iglesias added, before pointing out that the efforts of the operation are focused on trying to” stop the head of the fire “at the height of the firewall that is located on the border between the municipalities of Mombeltrán and El Arenal.
Although he did not want to “alarm” the population of El Arenal “ahead of time”, Iglesias has indicated that the performance in this firewall is “an opportunity” that hopes “results”since otherwise, the Arenalo municipality “could be affected and the town is not far.”