It was the scare yesterday Wednesday and, despite being controlled, the Emergency teams do not want to relax with the fire declared in Cullera. This past night a small smoke was detected in the area and the teams of the Valencia Provincial Fire Department Consortium have mobilized a forestry brigade to monitor the area of the fire throughout the morning.
The fire broke out at 3:43 p.m. this Wednesday and affected an area around the Sant Llorenç pond in Segundo Collao. The firefighters had considered the fire under control at 6:50 p.m., which reached forest land in the Albufera Natural Park, which raised a special alert. The advance of the flames had forced the eviction of 15 people from five nearby houses for prevention.
Crews from Gandia worked on the extinction with their sergeant, a crew from Cullera, the Ontinyent park manager, the Consortium Forest Brigades, the forest coordinator and forest and air firefighters from the Generalitat Valenciana.
The Emergency teams explained yesterday that "the rapid action of the Forest Fire Department teams of the Generalitat Valenciana, the Valencia Fire Department and the Generalitat Valenciana air resources had managed to control "in a few hours" the Cullera forest fire declared during the late afternoon
