
Infoca has declared the Pitres hill fire as “controlled,” which means that it is contained but not completely out.
It’s surprising that we still get hill fires in winter, which was the case on Monday, breaking out in the Órgiva area of the Alpujarra.
Seprona (the environmental branch of the Guardia Civil based in Granada together with officers from the Capileira post, are investigating the Burbión hillfire.
At the moment the forest-firefighting entity, Infoca, is tackling a hillfire in the Sierra de Lújar area, within the municipality of Vélez-Benaudalla.
The Almuñécar Fire Service was called out to tackle a fire next to Río Jate yesterday afternoon.
Infoca was called out in the early afternoon of yesterday to tackle a hill fire within the municipality of Vélez Benaudalla.
The Almuñécar fire service, backed by Infoca assets, were busy towards the end of last month putting out a hill fire in the Cuesta Cordobilla/ Cantalobos above La Herradura.
Two men were arrested and charged as suspects for having caused the Loma de Gato – barranco del Romeral hill fire on the 6th of this month.
Infoca managed to have the Loma de Gato fire under control and virtually extinguish by 16.30h yesterday afternoon.