Oviedo, April 8 (EFE).- Asturias today records six active fires in Ribadesella, Grado, Parres Tineo and Valdés in which firefighters and extinction helicopters work, while in another eight follow-up work is carried out and they are in review status, reports the Principality’s Emergency Service (SEPA).
In Tineo, in the southwest of Asturias, firefighters from the council and from Cangas del Narcea are working on the fires that have been declared in Espinaredo and Businán, while a third fire in Lavadoiro is under review.
A helicopter has also traveled to the Foyedo fire, one of the most virulent fires of the last wave in Asturias, in which the flames passed from the Tineo council to the coast, in the municipality of Valdés.
Firefighters from the Barres and Valdés parks are also working on this fire, which is already stabilized.
In the Aballe-Dego area, in the Parres council, another helicopter, together with firefighters from Cangas de Onís and personnel from a forestry company, have been working since early morning to extinguish it.
Active, but not in danger, there is a focus in Robledo, in the Grado council, while Villaviciosa firefighters and workers from a forestry company have traveled to Ribadesella to put out the flames in the Alea area.
The SEPA also keeps under review another six fires in Llanes (2), Ponga (2), Cangas del Narcea, Piloña, Villayón.
The risk of forest fires being declared is “extreme” or “very high” in practically all of the Principality, which today will see how thermometers exceed 25 degrees in the southwest, central area and mining valleys on a day without a trace of rain .
Thus, of the 78 Asturian municipalities, 51 will maintain their fire risk index tomorrow at the “extreme” level, the highest of the five that this indicator has, which is prepared daily by the General Directorate of Rural and Forest Infrastructures. In twenty it will be “very high” and in the remaining seven “high”.
