“You do not rest in the Sierra Bermeja – a mountainous area in southern Spain – You continue to fight centimeter by centimeter to contain a devastating fire”, wrote the president of the Andalusia region on Twitter. Juanma Moreno. An emergency that has been going on for six days now: more than 7 thousand hectares devastated, two thousand people evacuated, a firefighter was killed.
It has been classified as one of the most complicated fires that have ever hit the country due to the difficulties in accessing the area for rescue. The mountain range that crowns the Costa del Sol is, in fact, a set of valleys, peaks and rocky slopes that make it impossible to introduce means to put out the fire. To this, the adverse weather conditions are added: “A capricious wind that plays with the flames between the currents generated in the valleys”, writes the Spanish newspaper The country.
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Features thanks to which it becomes part of the WWF’s alarming list of “super fires” that are becoming more and more widespread due to global warming. Sixth generation fires, highly destructive, impossible to extinguish with the means available to mankind. Only favorable weather conditions can stop this type of flames. “We could multiply the means by 10 and we would have the same effectiveness as now”, admitted the deputy director of the Regional Operations Center of Plan Infoca, Alejandro Garcia, last Friday, after interrupting the operations in progress as they would not have been able to stop the advance of the flames.
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The greatest danger is the ability of this type of fires to create pyrocumulus, dense clouds of smoke that form over intense sources of heat, which feed the flames. Those generated by the Sierra Bermeja forest fire were clearly seen at distances of 100 kilometers.
“Even if the evolution in the last few hours shows signs of hope we must remain cautious,” said the fire chief Juan Sanchezo placeholder image. Over the course of yesterday and, after more than 72 hours of constant work to contain the flames, the fire got complicated againO.
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