Aragon declares level two of emergency due to the Castillonroy fire and requests the intervention of the UME
The Government of Aragon has raised the Special Emergency Civil Protection Plan for Forest fires (PROCINFO) to level two for the fire declared this Wednesday in the municipality of Castillonroyin the region of La Litera (Huesca). The Aragonese Executive has also requested the intervention of the Military Emergency Unit (UME) to collaborate in the extinction tasks, as reported by the community’s 112.
The evolution of fire has also forced us to send a Es-Alert message to the population of Albelda to request the preventive confinement of the population. The A-140 and N-230 highways, between kilometers 36.7 and 37, have been closed to traffic due to the advance of the flames.
The UME has reported through its social networks that “the Fourth Battalion of Intervention #BIEM4 begins the trip to collaborate in the forest fire extinguishing missions» by Catillonroy.
The Government of Aragon has already activated a 112 Advanced Command Post, which is going to be installed in the town of Tamarite de Litera to coordinate the operation to control the forest fire, which for the moment has burned 100 hectares since it was declared this Wednesday. Jorge Azcón, President of Aragón, has reported that he has traveled to the Operational Coordination Center (CECOPI) to follow the evolution of the fire from the crisis room.
«This summer is being especially problematic with the fires. Please take extreme precautions and follow the recommendations of those responsible for emergencies,” the Aragonese president said in a publication on social networks.
The smoke from this fire also affects several livestock farms in the area. For facilitate firefighting effortsthe supply of an electrical line has been interrupted, a measure that can cause problems in telephone communications, as reported by operational sources.
They have participated in the extinction work four heliborne brigades and helicopters of the Forest Fire Prevention and Extinction Device of the Government of Aragon (INFOAR), as well as two amphibious aircraft of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, who have left with the fall of night.
On the ground they remain four fire engines, four land brigades, an Advanced Command Post, technicians from the Advanced Command Post, a technical director of Extinction, support personnel to the director of Extinction (GADEX), a communications operator and a bulldozer, all of them from INFOAR.