The fire in La Palma has been officially considered under control at noon this Saturday. The Minister of Territorial Policy, Territorial Cohesion and Water, Manuel Miranda, responsible for Emergencies, has announced today the positive evolution of the fire, which allows it to go to Level 1 Emergency, as established in the Special Plan for Civil Protection and Emergency Attention due to Forest Fires in the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands (INFOCA).
This decision is made at the proposal of the technical director of the INFOCA Plan, after consultations and deliberations by the advisory committee and extinction management. From this moment, the Cabildo de La Palma assumes the direction of the emergency, the intervention of resources and communication to the population.
With the stabilization of the fire on Wednesday, the extinguishing tasks of the last few days have focused on the hot spots to consolidate the perimeter and avoid outbreaks, taking special care with the episode of wind registered on the islands, conditioned by the orography.
Faced with this favorable situation, the withdrawal of the media displaced to La Palma began yesterday, including the UME and the Ministry’s amphibious planes, as well as firefighters from other islands.
The fire broke out at 01:05 a.m. on Saturday, July 15, in the forest-urban interface area in El Fayal, in Puntagorda, and passed severity level 2 at 07:42 that same morning.
This fire started with a very wide front in an urban area and progressed rapidly, it has affected an area of ??2,900 hectares, although this figure may be lower, when a measurement is made at the foot of the land, since there are still unburned areas within the perimeter.
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