The Medical Emergency System (SEM) has attended to 217 people during the heat wave episode recorded in Catalonia between last friday and this monday, of which 87 were transferred to different health centers, has reported Civil Protection.
Since this past midnight the Alert of the Civil Protection Plan of Catalonia (Procicat) having finished the heat wave which began last Friday, as determined by the Meteorological Service of Catalonia (SCM).
The heat wave has widely affected the entire Catalan territory, although the counties of Lleida and Terres de l’Ebre have been the ones who have suffered the most high temperatures registered these days.
end to restrictions
The Generalitat has decided not to extend from today the access restrictions and of recreational and agricultural activities in the natural environment by risk of fire, at the end of the heat wave, although 30 municipalities in the Empordà will remain on alert and will remain three closed massifs.
As reported yesterday by Department of the Interior, before the improved weather conditions planned for the next few days, the technical committee of the Infocat Plan, with the endorsement of the Advisory Committee, has agreed not to extend the restrictions in force since last Friday in 357 municipalities in 27 counties.
Related news
However, in 28 municipalities of the Alt Emporda and in two of Baix Emporda, in Girona, the level 3 alert of the Alpha fire risk plan, Therefore, the prevention and restriction measures of this classification will be applied, which include, among other aspects, the closure of the massifs of the Cap de Creus, l’Albera and Montgrí.
In these 30 Empordà municipalities there is also all activities will be suspended that can generate a risk of forest fire, since the forecast is that the high temperatures and the tramuntana will remain there until Wednesday.