The Losacio forest fire, in the province of Zamora, could be around the 36,000 hectares burned and thus become the largest in the history of Spain since records began, according to provisional data from the Copernicus system provided by the Board of Castile and Leon through the Twitter profile ‘Nature CyL’.
Specifically, the plan with the area affected by the fire would include an area of 35,960 hectares burned, above the 34,290 that are calculated from the fire that devastated Minas de Riotinto (Huelva) in 2004.
The Losacio fire, which broke out on Sunday afternoon, claimed that same night the life of a 62-year-old brigade member who was participating in the extinction work, while the following day the lifeless body of a shepherd from 69 in one of the burned areas, two fatalities that are added to the several wounded of diverse consideration that caused the flames.
unprecedented virulence
An expert technician in large fires, with twenty-three campaigns, has recognized that the virulence of the Losacio forest fire, which it destroyed some 2,000 hectares an hour during the eight most critical hoursI had never experienced it.
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“A soccer field is a little less than a hectare, 2,000 soccer fields every hour of violent, explosive propagation and with changing winds”, he has given as an example to account for the voracity of the flames during the first eight hours of the fire.
this fire it remains at level 2 although after five days of work the firefighting teams have managed to stabilize it and the residents of the 34 towns that had to be evacuated due to the threat of the flames have already been able to return to their homes.