The municipality of Pont de Vilomara has decided to hire a private security service for the River Park development, the epicenter of the fire that burned more than 1,700 hectares of land in the area with the fire that started last Sunday. Apart from facing the fact of seeing how their houses had been seriously affected by the flames, some residents of the urbanization they had denounced cases of looting and theft after the passage of the flames.
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As it is a large urbanization, and the insufficient service that the Mossos could offer, the council of the town of Bages, with some 4,000 inhabitants, decided to hire a security company that will begin to exercise these surveillance functions. this Friday between eight in the evening and eight in the morning. The fire left in the Pont de Vilomara urbanization, according to figures from the Mossos d’Esquadra, a total of 47 homes affected, 28 partially and 19 totally.
To the desolation that caused the return to their homes, there were in some cases those situations that have aroused the fear of some neighbors who have seen how they have been left with nothing. The Government, on the other hand, has expressed its intention to guarantee a home to families whose habitual residence has been affected by the Bages fires, although for now they only have nine lodgings prepared. The ‘conselleres’ of the Presidency, Laura Vilagrà, and of Drets Socials, Violant Cervera, explained this Thursday after meeting with the mayors of the municipalities affected by the fires of recent days.