This noon that the points have been detected and the agents are quite clear that “unfortunately” the cause has been provoked
The fire started in a “hidden” area in a “bad” area
Rural Agents work with the hypothesis of intentionality at the origin of the fire in the Pont de Vilomara and Rocafort (Bages) that has been burning since this Sunday, and has affected 1,750 hectares and about fifty houses, about twenty of which were completely burned.
Jaume Torralba, head of the Agents Rurals in Central Catalonia, explained this Tuesday that the fire, already stabilized, had its origin in two nearby points next to a stream in a very hidden place. Y it was not until this noon that the points were detected and the agents have quite clear that “unfortunately” the cause has been provoked by someone intending to set fire.
The fire is under trialfor which Torralba did not want to offer more details about the investigation.
explosive spread
The head of Agents Rurals has not hesitated to indicate that the origin of the fire has had “bad milk”both due to its intentionality and because it was located at a point, next to the stream, where a slope immediately began that allowed explosive propagation of the flames
The fire started in a “hidden” area” 3.5 kilometers from the Pont de Vilomara, in a “bad” zone. The steep slope constituted a kind of orographic chimney that facilitated the rapid expansion of the fire.
“Today, with GPS, anyone can get anywhere. If not, we would tend to think that it is someone with great knowledge of the area“, Torralba has indicated in the surroundings of the point where the origin of the fire is located.
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At the same time, the body considers that another fire which took place on July 12 in Sant Vicenç de Castellet It was also intentional. In any case, Torralba has affirmed that these are very different patternsa fact that remains enough to the possibility -although not ruled out- that the same person caused them.
a third fire, the one that occurred yesterday afternoon in Manresa, near a landfill, is considered fortuitous. Specifically, the command of the Rural Agents has explained that a bird was electrocuted with an electric wire and fell on the ground, the point of origin of the flames.