Zaragoza / Castelló (EFE) affects this area of the province of Teruel.
Until then, it has mobilized 3 helicopter transport crews, 2 ground crews, 2 fire trucks and the advanced command post with three Gádex technicians, according to sources from the regional government.
Emergency level 1 corresponds to a fire phase that requires the implementation of specific and specific measures to protect the health of people or isolated assets threatened, such as supply networks (electrical, water or gas pipelines) or isolated buildings.
The Minister of the Presidency and Institutional Relations, Mayte Pérez, will chair a meeting of the Operational Coordination Center this Thursday to analyze the situation.
high danger
In the Valencian Community, the Military Emergency Unit has been activated by the National Emergency Monitoring and Coordination Center to intervene in the fire declared this noon in the Castellón town of Villanueva de Viver, which is “highly dangerous” and has forced to evict Puebla de Arenoso and Fuente la Reina.
The Emergency Coordination Center has elevated the fire to Situation 2 due to the risk of seriously affecting the population and non-forest assets.
Thus, it is contemplated that they join the extinction work, in which six aerial means are already working, “protection and relief” measures, as well as “extraordinary means”, according to reports from the Generalitat Emergencies, which details that it has already been evacuated the hamlet of Los Calpes, in Puebla de Arenoso, and the municipality of Fuente la Reina.
After 4:30 p.m., the eviction of the municipality of Puebla de Arenoso has been requested, as well as two more districts of the same: Los Cantos and La Monzona.
An area with a large forest mass
The fire broke out in a ravine area with a large forest mass and had already forced, for the moment, to cut a road and evacuate a farmhouse in a preventive manner.
As EFE has been informed by sources from the Castellón Provincial Fire Department Consortium, there is currently no strong wind blowing in the area, although the flames are advancing rapidly due to the amount of combustible mass, which is also dry due to the lack of rainfall in recent years. months in the area.
Six aerial means, four units of the Generalitat Forest Firefighters, a prevention unit, two environmental agents and a crew from the Consortium of Firefighters are working on the fire, according to Emergencies. A large column of smoke can be seen from several kilometers around.
During the first moments of the fire, a farmhouse was evacuated, in a preventive manner, and one of the access roads to Villanueva de Viver, a town in the Alto Mijares region, was cut.