The different bodies and organizations of the Territorial Plan for Civil Protection of Catalonia (Procicat) will meet this Monday to evaluate the continuity of the measures adopted by the heat wave and to prevent forest fires, a session in which the rural agents will propose to maintain the level 3 of the Alpha Plan and the restriction of access to 11 natural spaces.
The head of rural agents in central Catalonia, Jaume Torralba, explained to Efe that, despite the fact that weather forecasts announce a change of weather, With lower temperatures and probability of rain for the next few days, the body will ask at the meeting to maintain level 3 of the Alpha plan “until the change materializes.” Currently, the activity restrictions implied by level 3 of the aforementioned plan affect 357 municipalities in 27 counties, In addition to restricted access to eleven massifs, those of Montgrí, Cap de Creus, l’Albera, Gavarres, Montsec d’Ares, Montsec de Rúbies, Baronia de Rialp, Montserrat, Sant Llorenç del Munt i l’Obac, Montsant and Montmell- marbling
“These are critical moments”
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Torralba has argued that, on many occasions, a change in weather such as the one announced “involves an entry of winds”. “And in these changes we have had last-minute scares. These are critical moments and we cannot lower our guard,” he added. The weekend that ends today, he indicated, “was really very good”, since although the meteorological situation has been of high risk for the proliferation of fires “there has been none of consideration and there have been small outbreaks in Girona and in Central Catalonia, but of little magnitude”. “Everything below expectations,” she stressed, in contrast to what happened the previous weekend with the fire at Pont de Vilomara.
Torralaba has indicated that the body of rural agents, in fact, “expected more” and had “a prepared device that has not been necessary to deploy”, At the same time, it has stressed that this has been possible “due to compliance with the measures and the awareness of citizens” about the current risk situation. “We expected more breaches in access to the massifs”, Torralba has confessed, who has highlighted the small number of complaints that have been processed, because the citizens “They have understood that they are closed for their safety and to avoid risks.” “It has been a very good weekend,” he concluded.