The fall of a power line caused this morning, around 11:00 hours, a forest fire in the area of ​​El Mirador de La Santa (Morti) within the Natural Park of Sierra Espuña.
Over thirty effective Firefighters, Local Police, Civil Defence, Police and forest checkpoint, environmental agents, along with the helicopter DG Center Public Safety and Emergency, participated in the work of termination, which has been focused and controlled.
The troops are on the scene to extinguish the fire completely, as Iberdrola has had to move to the city to cut the power to extinguish the fire.
The Mayor of Totana, Isabel Maria Sánchez Ruíz, who has moved immediately to the scene, along with the Councillor for Public Safety, Francisco Hernández, explained that "thanks to the timely intervention of the staff and especially the call Township warning hikers who were in the same place, the fire did not cause a disaster. "
Sánchez Ruíz has moved personally to thank hikers, "and thanks to his acting, they themselves have attempted to quell the first outbreaks, our dearest area Espuña has not suffered a major fire at the moment magnitudes because the Wind was highly virulent. "
