fayos: «Burned houses as such there are no but the fire has reached the facades»
"On the third day of the Granadella-Cumbre del Sol fire, it is still active and not yet controlled," So, with these words, he told us this morning, to javea.com, the head of the Fire Station, Javier Fayos. Fayos, in a moment of waiting at WFP, has commented that the fire is not yet stabilized, as he explained to us, "This morning the perimeter has been flown next to the local police chief of Xàbia, José Antonio Monfort, and some hot spots have been located", Which have displaced fire units accompanied by the local police.
The head of the Fire explains the complexity of the work yesterday, "and it is that due to the thermal load and the heat, the airplanes threw water and evaporated before arriving at the ground". Fayos indicates that "Even if 20 had come more aircraft we would not have achieved anything". About the problems they had in the evictions, he tells us that people of advanced age did not want to leave the houses, "there were people with disabilities, others with Alzheimer's". Javier Fayos tells one of the stories and tells us that making a round to see the situation with the local police chief, José Antonio Monfort, and Councilman José Luís Luengo, are with an older gentleman who had his wife and dog at home, "It was surrounded in flames, I took a wet sheet and covered the lady, I tried to take the dog but she hid under the bed, between the three we got the lady in the car with the husband to WFP"This morning he confirmed that the dog had died.
Also, from javea.com, we had the opportunity to see and see first-hand the situation of the burned areas and the panorama is bleak. We have been to Cap Martí, Camí Vell de la Granadella, Pinosol and Pinomar. Most striking, the porch of a house in the area of Cap Marti, specifically, in the street La Vinya, completely burnt next to a car, a caravan and several bicycles. This house was recently built and barely had a month.
A complex situation where many plots have been burned and in some of them, smoke was still visible. By midmorning, the neighbors who were slowly returning to their homes, accompanied by volunteers from the Red Cross and Local Police, did not know if the insurance would pay them for the damage caused, even waiting if they declared a catastrophic area.
Fayos said that during the morning of Tuesday, they had an air means in the county park, the Alfa 2 and the hottest point was in the area of Benitatxell, where they have displaced 10 autobombas online to protect the homes of the Cumbre del Sol. In the area of Cala de La Granadella, two pumps have been placed to protect the houses. "Houses burned as such there but if the fire has reached the facades". Inside the greatness of the fire had not been no human fatalities. Fortunately, in the park perimeter and Pinosol Hotel Pinosol I had a couple of burned palm trees and a perimeter of the plot only burned. All in all a great catastrophe that has been described by the head of the regional government, Ximo Puig, as "environmental terrorism".
