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Eighty hectares burn with mount low and pine in a fire between Pétrola and Blond Corral

THE VERDAD/ALBACETE|August 17, 2006
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The mount albaceteño returned to give a new scare yesterday. A aerogenerador of the Aeolian park of the Anorias in Pétrola began to burn on the four with afternoon and caused a forest fire in the place known like the Cord.

Editor's Note: This translation is not great but this fire in Albacete, Spain was caused by a wind turbine. Apparently this is the second incident.


The mount albaceteño returned to give a new scare yesterday. A aerogenerador of the Aeolian park of the Anorias in Pétrola began to burn on the four with afternoon and caused a forest fire in the place known like the Cord.

So and as the mayor of Pétrola, Juan explained to this newspaper Go'mez, the fort ruling wind caused that the fire extended quickly. In principle one was afraid that it reached a small village, the Port Pine, but thanks to the citizen collaboration the front that went to this small population was extinguished quickly. “Also another man who worked in the field with the straw managed to control another center”, explained Juan Go'mez to this newspaper.

The fire extended quickly and the average presents tried to do to …

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The mount albaceteño returned to give a new scare yesterday. A aerogenerador of the Aeolian park of the Anorias in Pétrola began to burn on the four with afternoon and caused a forest fire in the place known like the Cord.

So and as the mayor of Pétrola, Juan explained to this newspaper Go'mez, the fort ruling wind caused that the fire extended quickly. In principle one was afraid that it reached a small village, the Port Pine, but thanks to the citizen collaboration the front that went to this small population was extinguished quickly. “Also another man who worked in the field with the straw managed to control another center”, explained Juan Go'mez to this newspaper.

The fire extended quickly and the average presents tried to do to him in front. Around the eight afternoon the fire was controlled although the detent of firemen remained during more time to cool the land and to avoid that the fire could be revived by the wind.

The regidor of Pétrola assured that luckyly the fire did not approach other population centers and explained that what had burned was low mount, holm oak and pine.

“Fear has gone”

Also the mayor of Blond Corral, Fidel Aparicio, municipality who also was itself affected by the flames, passed a bad one behind schedule as he himself recognized. “The wind force at the outset has caused that we feared that it was possible to be extended quickly”. Aparicio admitted that even at some moments it had passed fear because the fire could reach much greater dimensions.

The maximum person in charge of Blond Corral indicated that “she gives much pain to see how the trees burn that have taken as little forty years in reaching their present aspect and seeing as the life goes away to them, because that also is life”. Aparicio as much thanked for the diligence of means anti present fires, like of the volunteers who participated in the extinction of the flames and the ones in charge of the coordination workings.

Finally, according to both mayors, and for want of knowing the estimations official, mount hectares of low and pine burned between eighty and one hundred.

According to they explained sources of the fight against fires in Castile-The Spot, in the workings of extinction of the flames participated four terrestrial detents with four autobombas, two transport airplanes in earth and a helicopter with a transported by helicopter detent. In addition, also two trucks of the Sepei participated (Provincial Service against Fires).


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