They've controlled the fire in the Elgea Mountains
The wind has spread the flames between Arriola and Narbaxa, where firefighters from Álava, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa are working. The Alavesa Council expects the fire to be extinguished in the next few hours. Une in this area, 25 firefighters ark to prevent the fire.
The fire that broke out on Saturday in the ElgeaMountains, between Arriola and Narbaxa (Álava), around 20:00, has spread in the last few hours and the firefighters are working, and around 14:00 on Sunday the fire has managed to perimeter and is in the stabilization phase.
At the end of Sunday afternoon, around 6.30 p.m., the fire was controlled by the Department of Safety of the Basque Government and the Provincial Council of Álava. At the moment, some 25 firefighters are involved in the cooling ofthe affected area to prevent possible embers from rekindling the fire.
Apparently, the 2-3 mile perimeter is now closed.
In the morning there have been wind waves of between 40 and 60 kilometres per hour , and the drought and the situation in the area have made it very difficult to extinguish the flames. "It is arugged massif with a lot of bushes, "said Jon Apodaka The Emergency Technician of the Department of Security of the Basque Government in the informative"Goizak Gaur"of Euskadi Irratia.
"It is early to determine how wide it has burned, but there is no danger to people inthe area, "Apodaka explained from the fire monitoring emergency post.
Early in the morning, the Basque Government and the Members of Parliament have set to work on the helicopter that has the to deal with forest fires. It hasalso rained at noon, which 'will contribute significantly to stabilising the situation and controlling the flames'.
Firefighters from Álava, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa are working together with forest and mountain workers to extinguish the fire.
The fire has mainly burned bushes and ferns, and the General Representative of Álava, Ramiro González, has expressed his hope that it will be extinguished in the next few hours.
The Narbasa Administrative Boardhas denounced the "state of the mountain" that caused the fire because the lack of livestock has not cleaned the mountain. "The Council does not help to clean and cut weeds because they intend to cut a bush to damage the mountain," they have explained.
The authorities have confirmed that the fire has not affected urban areas, nor has any housing been evacuated, nor have the wind turbines installed in the area been damaged, as the flames have mainly affected low vegetation and shrubs, with virtually no forest mass.
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