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Civil Protection warns that the change in wind can complicate the evolution of the Madrid fire

The Secretary General of Civil Protection and Emergencies, Virginia Barcones, warned this Saturday that the change in climate situations anticipated for the subsequent few hours could complicate the evolution of the Madrid fire, regardless of the proven fact that the night has allowed the progress made by the operation to be consolidated. “The night has been good, it has allowed the troops to work and now we have to face the day,” he mentioned in an interview on RTVE’s Canal 24 Horas.

Barcones defined that in the morning a change in wind path is predicted, with gusts of as much as 60 kilometers per hour, which can power the extinction technique to be tailored. “Changes in wind direction add new scenarios,” he acknowledged. In Madrid, he specified, the head of the fire is situated between Robledo de Chavela and Fresnedillas de la Oliva, after passing the M-521, whereas the fire declared in Ávila continues to advance in the direction of Cebreros and El Tiemblo, with out having but crossed the Community of Madrid. “The priority is to protect people,” he insisted.
The particular person in cost of Civil Protection has indicated that it’s nonetheless too early to evaluate the injury that the fire could have induced to the threatened infrastructure.

“At this time it is still not possible to have an exact record of the damage or how the fire has affected the material or the technical part of the different facilities,” he defined. Among them is the Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex (MDSCC), situated in Robledo de Chavela, the solely NASA infrastructure in Spain and one of the three floor stations of the Deep Space Network (DSN) that the US company maintains in the world, together with these in Goldstone (California) and Canberra (Australia).

Barcones has harassed that the goal remains to include the fire earlier than transferring to a part in which the operation can assault the fire extra successfully. He has additionally confirmed that Spain has activated the European Civil Protection Mechanism and that two Italian and two Greek amphibious planes will arrive throughout the morning, whereas efforts proceed to include assets from the Netherlands and Portugal.
The normal secretary has described the emergency as “a fire with unprecedented simultaneous evacuees”, with 30,000 folks evacuated and 20,000 confined in the Community of Madrid, to that are added 9,000 evacuees and 8,000 confined in Castilla y León. Faced with an episode of excessive danger, he has requested the inhabitants to completely comply with the info from official channels and adjust to the directions of the authorities. “We are going to take extreme precautions, we are going to take care of ourselves, we are going to be our own heroes and, above all, we are going to try together to prevent us from having any new fires.”