Stabilized the fire Forestry of Foradada del Tuscar, in Huesca, about 2,100 meters high and with a complex orography that has come to hinder the means for its extinction. The fire, declared just over a day ago, has burned around 20 hectares of brush and pine within an abrupt area of the Cotiella massif, in the Sobrarbe region, between the valleys of the ESERA and El Cinca. There is no affected population and is expected to be controlled in the next few hours, although no medium, land or aerial, may remain during the night because of the danger that that would be.
The media deployed have come to suppose a total of almost nine aerial media between light, media, coordination helicopters and the amphibious seal plane. After 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, some media from the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (Miteco) have begun their progressive withdrawal. In addition, the coordination plane (ACO) will be incorporated to relieve the coordination helicopter in air supervision tasks.
A complex fire, with high slopes and abrupt terrain
The director of extinction, France Aso, has influenced the “technical complexity” of the fire given its inaccessibility, very complicated orography, very high slopes and a very abrupt terrain. ”The head of the field on the ground has indicated that the work carried out by firefighters have been in levels close to the 2,000 meters of altitude, so since yesterday night the tasks of extinction are carried out with aerial means.
Likewise, ASO has explained how a series of maneuvers has been carried out since early this morning to be able to “guarantee the access of the crews by land, and then helitransport them to the upper part of the fire, and in the same way towards the slopes and the lower part of the fire.” This effort has paid off and “the action combined by land and air” until the fire is stabilized before 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday.
“We hope that in the next few hours it can be taken for control,” said the chief of extinction before asking for “patience and prudence”, also attending to the weather of the rest of the day “since during the night you cannot leave means working in the area due to the risk and danger they would run” taking into account the orography and height.
