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The latest in a summer full of wildfires has been exacerbated by the heat and lack of humidity
Another dangerous forest fire has broken out in Valencia. The fire started at around 4.21pm on Monday July 25 in a “complicated forest area” and by the afternoon at least 12 aerial resources were already trying to extinguish the flames.
A dozen residents in the village of Alcotas, Valencia, who were evicted as a precautionary measure due to the forest fire declared on Monday afternoon in the municipality of Calles, have already returned to their homes, although the fire was still not stabilised.
Airplanes take to the skies once again this morning at 8am to try to extinguish the fire, while several ground units have remained overnight in the area to try to contain the flames.
📹🔥Vídeoresum dels treballs realitzats en les últimes hores a #IFCalles. Seguirem treballant tota la nit pic.twitter.com/uVs1naj0Lh
— Bombers Consorci VLC (@BombersValencia) July 25, 2022
Residents of the town of Calles, a municipality of about 350 inhabitants located inland, about 66 kilometres from the city of Valencia, had already seen the area suffer a “major fire years ago”.
The cause of the fire is not yet known, but it is telling that it started in the vicinity of the Saletas road in Calles, where there is a composting plant. According to the Valencia Provincial Council, it was the workers of this plant, belonging to Egevasa, who warned of the fire in the forest area.
Temperatures that exceeded 40ºC and an afternoon breeze made it more difficult fot firefighters to combat the blaze. In addition, the humidity was “very low, below 20% for six hours from midday until the arrival of the breeze, when it rose sharply to 50%,” according to the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet).
This summer has been the most destructive for wildfires in Spain since records began, and forest fires continue to burn in Tenerife, Castilla y León, Andalusia and many other parts of Spain.
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