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Eagles Mayor and Councilman of Public Safety congratulated all teams that participated in extinguishing the fire, for its rapid and effective intervention that has prevented further damage.
About 16'15 pm yesterday Wednesday, July 18, a call was received at the Operational Coordination Center of the Autonomous Community of Murcia (CEPA), warned of a fire in the place aquiline known as "La Morra the Bun" in the Sierra de Almenara.
So instead deployed a large number of troops Infomur Plan, forest brigades and the participation of 4 helicopters that took the reservoirs of agricultural irrigation water to load faster as well as several endowments: Firefighters, Local Police, Civil Guard Red Cross and Civil Protection, the latter belonging to the towns of Aguilas, Lorca and Puerto Lumbreras Pulpí, reaching about 100 people total.
Being a zone of low scrub espartizal and, encouraged by the high temperatures of these days and the east wind that blew yesterday in the town, the fire was spreading rapidly to raze 35 acres of forest, being controlled around 19.30 hours.
However, overnight has remained on guard a checkpoint to control the fire revived, declared extinct in the early hours of Thursday morning, still not yet determined the reasons why that occurred.
Both the mayor of Eagle, Bartolome Hernandez, as the councilor of Public Safety, Francisco Clemente, present yesterday in the area for fire suppression, congratulated all the teams that participated in the operation, for its rapid and effective intervention that has avoided major damage, as well as neighboring municipalities who offered their help.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Águilas
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