Night of intense work fighting the fire. The firefighters of the Andalusian Forest Fire Extinguishing Service, Plan Infoca, who considered stabilized at midnight the fire declared yesterday at 10:00 p.m. in the Corijo de Mezquerina area, in the Granada municipality of Lanjarón, are still present at the area to control and extinguish the flames.
Two groups of forest firefighters, an operations technician and a deputy director of the Infoca Regional Operational Center, along with two heavy firefighting vehicles, are the resources available to return normality to this point.
As reported by Plan Infoca on its social networks, the fire broke out around 10:00 p.m. in the Cortijo Mezquerina area, where a northwest wind was blowing at a speed of 28 kilometers per hour, and was stabilized at 12:30 a.m.
After the fire broke out, the Lanjarón city council asked, via social media, residents living in farmhouses in the Mimbrón Chaparra area and surrounding areas to leave the place urgently without obstructing the chaparra lane because the strong wind and the night made control difficult. of the fire.
