The Anoia fire has been stabilized in another day of simultaneous fires.
This year's summer has already seen the most burned land in the last 15 years.
BarcelonaMore than seventy personnel, with six air units and 19 ground units, have been working in Sant Pere Sallavinera (Anoia) to extinguish the fourth active fire this afternoon in Catalonia. The fire has burned approximately 130 hectares and was stabilized at 9:30 p.m. The flames began burning cereal crops, but are also affecting many forest areas. There are some isolated farmhouses in the area, and due to their proximity to the fire, the emergency services have recommended the containment of these properties, which are located between Sant Pere Sallavinera, Aguilar de Segarra, and Fonollosa. Once the fire was stabilized, the containment has been lifted.
The fire caused a significant column of smoke, and the initial extinguishing efforts have progressed very favorably on the right flank, which affects a cereal field. However, as the afternoon progressed, this flank of the fire spread into the forested area, creating secondary fires. Meanwhile, the left flank of the fire—which is burning forest vegetation—has crested the mountain range and, for now, has no further downward movement.
The beginning of this summer has already accumulated more burned hectares than at least since 2010, when the Rural Agents' records began, published this Tuesday by the ACN. Including the provisional balance of 3,173 hectares from the Paüls fire, from June 1—the start of the forest fire season—to date, 9,422 hectares have burned in Catalonia. This exceeds the 6,576 hectares that had been burned by this date in 2019, the year with the greatest impact until the first week of July.
Furthermore, the start of this summer's forest fire season already accounts for more than half of the area burned during the entire summer of 2012, the worst since the 1990s, when 17,922 hectares were burned, including forest and agricultural areas. So far this summer, 161 wildfires have been recorded, the second highest number this century until July 7, surpassed only by 2005.
More active fires
The first alert of the afternoon was very close to Paüls, where a fire has been burning since yesterday, having already scorched more than 3,100 hectares. White smoke plumes appeared, and firefighters have sent seven crews to deal with this blaze
After approximately an hour of work, firefighters managed to surround the fire, and the helicopter completed its airdrops. They had to work on a fire in Tremp that has burned 5.5 hectares, mainly agricultural land. They have had to move to an area of sown fields in Palau de Noguera. The hypothesis of the origin of the fire is a power line
