The flames spread rapidly through the channels of two boulevards full of weeds and forced the intervention of thirty firefighters and the Community helicopter
More than a linear kilometer of charred scrub and the voluntary eviction of four homes is the balance of the intentional fires declared early this Friday afternoon on boulevard land, between the El Rosalar urbanization and the San Antón football field. , in Cartagena. The event mobilized more than thirty troops, including firefighters and security agents, as well as a Community helicopter with a brigade of forest firefighters to prevent the fire from spreading to inhabited areas. The flames were controlled in about three hours, although it is necessary to maintain checkpoints all afternoon for refreshment tasks.
The three sources were located on the banks of the Benipila and Canteras boulevards: one behind the Colegio San Vicente de Paúl and two, which were joined, in front of the old Naval Hospital. It was the neighbors who warned of the fires with calls to 112, around half past two in the afternoon. Firefighters from Cartagena and environmental agents from Cartagena and Mazarrón quickly attended. One of them was treated by health services due to heat stroke and smoke inhalation. Half an hour later, the Community helicopter with its helicopter brigade joined the device, while the Civil Guard and Local Police cut off the Canteras road.
The largest focus was located in a section of the Rambla de Canteras, in front of the Naval Hospital and El Rosalar. There, at the foot of José Luis Meseguer avenue, there is a nucleus of four houses that were evicted as a precaution. In one of them lives an elderly lady who needed help to get to safety. The flames did burn the remains of an uninhabited house nearby.
The Civil Guard suspects that the author of the fire ended his journey there. “It is the same person who has burned everything. He has started in San Vicente de Paúl and has continued up the boulevard until he got here », police sources indicated. In addition, they warned that throughout the week there were several fire attempts on the same boulevard.
dirty riverbeds
The focus located near the San Vicente de Paúl school was controlled and suffocated by firefighters in just over an hour.
The neighbors attributed the rapid spread of the fire to the lack of cleanliness in a large part of the boulevards. Members of the firefighting teams confirmed that the flames caught on quickly because the riverbeds are full of tall dry hurdles and bushes that catch fire easily.
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