The fire that started in La Mierla (Guadalajara) last Thursday, which remains at level 2, has advanced overnight and now burns 13,000 hectares, with 21 municipalities evacuated and 800 people displaced, according to the Castilla-La Mancha Sustainable Development Minister, Mercedes Gómez. Aerial resources resume their activity with daylight, and currently there are 204 people working in 32 teams, according to information provided by Infocam. In Zaragoza, the Orés fire is evolving favorably. The president of Aragón, Jorge Azcón, has reported that “there is no fire or flames” and only a few smoke columns remain. “It is the first day we breathe,” Azcón stated from the command post after participating in the Cecopi meeting. The fire suppression chief, Alfonso González, has corrected the burned hectares figure, reducing it from 15,800 to 14,400 after more precise measurements thanks to satellite images. This fire has forced the evacuation of five municipalities in Zaragoza and one in Navarra.
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Zaragoza | Azcón on the evolution of the Orés fire: “It is the first day we breathe”
The president of Aragón, Jorge Azcón, has reported that the Orés fire in Zaragoza continues to evolve favorably after a night in which conditions improved. “It is the first day we breathe,” Azcón stated from the command post after participating in the Cecopi meeting.
“It is the first day the fire looks different from what it has been these days. Not only is there no fire or flames, but only a few smoke columns are visible. That does not mean we will lower our guard,” Azcón said.
“I am convinced that we are in the process of perimeter control of the fire. Last night, the perimeter and the number of hectares barely increased,” assured the regional president, who flew over the fire this morning.
Zaragoza | The Orés fire suppression chief reduces affected hectares to 14,400 after “more precise” measurements
The Orés fire suppression chief this Sunday, Alfonso González, has reported that the hectares affected by the fire are 14,400. The figure is lower than the one communicated yesterday, when authorities reported 15,800 hectares burned. The correction is due, according to González, to more precise measurements made possible by satellite images. This is still a provisional figure.
Regarding the fire’s evolution, González stated that suppression services have to “weigh whether the fire can be considered stabilized.” “But what we have seen today is quite encouraging and positive compared to other days,” González said, also noting that they are monitoring wind changes. “We are cautious.”
UME members working early Sunday morning on the La Mierla (Guadalajara) forest fire. / UME
The fire in Guadalajara continues to grow: it burns 13,000 hectares and forces the evacuation of 800 people
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The Castilla-La Mancha Sustainable Development Minister, Mercedes Gómez, has reported that the fire’s advance in the northern sierra of Guadalajara has forced the evacuation of 200 more people, bringing the total evacuees to 800 from 21 municipalities, four more than in the last update.
The latest villages evacuated this morning are Prádenas de Atienza, Robledo, Aldeanueva, and Naharros, who have been sent an Es-Alert to inform them of the evacuation.
Additionally, Gómez notes that the fire has reached 13,000 hectares after advancing 14 kilometers overnight.
Emergency teams are working on firebreaks and defense lines to try to contain the fire.
Guadalajara | The La Mierla fire exceeds 12,000 hectares burned and totals 700 evacuees in 16 municipalities
The fire that started in La Mierla (Guadalajara) last Thursday, which remains at level 2, now burns 12,000 hectares, totaling 16 evacuated municipalities and 700 people displaced, according to updated data from the Castilla-La Mancha Government.
After the night has passed, aerial resources resume their activity, and currently there are a total of 204 people working across 32 teams, according to information provided by Infocam.
The Sustainable Development Minister, Mercedes Gómez, participates, after which she will analyze and assess the current situation. Once the meeting is over, she will move to the Advanced Command Post, located in the town of Tamajón. (EP)
Good morning. Here begins the live narration of the evolution of the fires this Sunday, July 19. All eyes are on the fire burning the northern sierra of Guadalajara, which has already burned 12,000 hectares, while maintaining level 2 emergency and UME intervention. On the other hand, aerial and ground resources are fighting to perimeter the forest fire declared in Orés (Zaragoza) this Sunday, which has forced the evacuation of five Aragonese localities and one in Navarra and affects nearly 16,000 hectares, the fire with the largest burned area so far this summer in Spain
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