Thirteen active fires in the mountains keep Cantabria on fire alert

Cantabria began on Sunday with thirteen active forest fires and eleven already controlled in ten municipalities in the region, which remains on high alert for fire, except in the southern area.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
06 April 2024 Saturday 11:12
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Thirteen active fires in the mountains keep Cantabria on fire alert

Cantabria began on Sunday with thirteen active forest fires and eleven already controlled in ten municipalities in the region, which remains on high alert for fire, except in the southern area.

As reported by the regional government, railway traffic, which was cut off yesterday, Saturday, late in the afternoon due to the proximity of the lights to the Casar de Periedo station, in Cabezón de la Sal, has been reactivated and the trains They circulate normally.

More than 170 members of Forestry, Civil Protection and 112 have worked throughout the night to control the fires, with the support of municipal Civil Protection groups.

The regional government maintains the pre-emergency phase of the Special Forest Fire Plan (Infocant) activated and the firefighting operation in eleven of the thirteen forest regions into which the region is divided remains on high alert, all but the two of the south of the community.

At first hour, 13 fires are active in the mountains of Lamasón, Rionansa - where there are five -, Tudanca, Cabuérniga, Arenas de Iguña, Cieza, Liérganes, Cabezón de la Sal and Alfoz de Lloredo.

The controlled fires are located in Vega de Liébana, Tudanca, Cabuérniga, Arenas de Iguña, Cieza, Corvera de Toranzo, Luena, Vega de Pas and Ribamontán al Mar.

The State Meteorological Agency announces rain and a drop in temperatures for this Sunday, which yesterday, Saturday, touched 30 degrees.