The Military Emergency Unit has worked this morning in the tasks of extinguishing the forest fire declared on Thursday around 16.00 in the Sierra de San Cristóbal in Nerva (Huelva). By its extension, which is expected to reach 500 hectares, will be cataloged as a major fire, the largest in Andalusia declared in this year. The support of the army was necessary after at 21.30 the level 1 of the Emergency Plan for Forest Fires was activated, which implies that the fire can be controlled with the means of extinction foreseen in the Plan, although due to its foreseeable evolution you need to protect people and assets. So far, 22 people have been transferred to the shelter Campofrío preventive, although most have stayed at home with family and friends, reports 112. So far no more evictions are expected.
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At 11.00 this Friday keeps two hot spots and "evolves as planned," as stated by the Minister of Environment, José Fiscal, from the Advanced Command Post, installed in the El Peral Industrial Park. "No unexpected changes are expected in the weather and that, along with the hard work being done in the different areas, should help," added Fiscal. "The results of the work are quite favorable, with the help of the aerial means that are being incorporated, there should not be a major problem if the weather is stable," added José Antonio Martínez, director of the Provincial Operational Center.
The Fire Research Brigade has also traveled to the area to study the origin of this fire. "We do not know if the hand of man is behind by negligence or with intention, we will see, but it is true that the area where it has been produced is an area in which these episodes are not strange, almost every year there is a fire for this zone ", said Fiscal in Cadena Ser." In 96% of the origin of any fire is the hand of man, either intentionally or without the intention to provoke it, it can be a spark of a machine, a cable ... ", detailed Infoca sources.
It is expected that throughout the morning the action of the extinction forces will develop with temperatures of 40 degrees and gusts of winds between 12 and 15 kilometers per hour. At 11.00, air assets are operating in zone 21: five cargo planes on the ground, one surveillance and coordination aircraft, seven transport and extinction helicopters, three large-capacity helicopters, one of them from the Ministry of Agriculture, which has also mobilized two amphibians. These support the device that maintains the Plan Infoca in the area, composed of 150 forest firefighters, 10 fire engines, a wet nurse, four environmental agents and nine operations technicians, plus four extinction technicians, collects Efe.