Alleged arsonist arrested over Spain wildfire
A second volunteer firefighter died after fighting a forest fire in Leon in Northern Spanish province, and the police claimed that a man began a separate fire because he was faced with one of the worst summers in 20 years.
“Today we are mourning the death of another member of the team fighting the fires in Leon,” Nicanor Sen, the National Government’s Castile and Leon representative.
Local media described the man as a 37 -year -old Jaime Aparicio who attracted burns up to 85 percent of his body after he was stuck next to another volunteer near Nogarejas, while trying to create fire -breakers with brush cutters. This year was the seventh death connected to fires.
His 35 -year -old colleague Abel Ramos died on Tuesday. On Monday, a man killed a separate fire at the foot of Madrid.
Police said they had arrested a man in the province of Northern Zamora for launching a fire on a land used to throw garbage illegally.
It caused the hot air to spread rapidly, burned 4000ha and five people were injured.
Police said on Thursday that another man was arrested in August that he had provoked six fires in the southern state of Malaga.
Ten people have been arrested since June 1, and the police, who investigated forest fires intentionally, investigated 38 more. The convicted Saddakists in Spain may face imprisonment of up to five years and heavy fines.
The three firefighters continued to fight a fire near us in the northwestern region of Galicia.
Spain’s forest fires have been ventilated by one of the longest heat waves since records. This year, which has been the second largest area since 2006, is about 148,000 hectares in Spain.
According to the European Commission European Forest Fire Information System, this is more than a quarter of the 512,000ha burned in the EU this year.
The regional government said in a statement that about 170 children in Galicia and those who supervised them were limited to the summer camp areas after burning the cables of the power system of the camp.
The campers were rescued and moved to a water park on Wednesday.
“We were really scared, but in the middle of the fire, with a few tears, we and the monitors were dancing. The sky orange, but finally everything went well.”
Interior Minister Fernando Grando Grande-Marlaska, RTVE in an interview, Spain’s European partners to fight fires to fight fires after asking for help on Thursday, two Canadian water bombardment planes from France, he said.
Approximately two dozen flames continued to get angry fed by wind and excessive heat. Approximately 9500 people were evacuated from their towns and ordered to stay in hundreds of houses.
