Does the Spanish mountain fire affect tourism? 20 19 causes of mountain fires in Spain

When summer comes, the temperature is getting higher and higher, and the weather is dry, the probability of mountain fires will be greater. Everyone should have seen the news of the Spanish mountain fire. Will the Spanish mountain fire affect everyone's travel? What is the cause of this mountain fire?

Whether the Spanish mountain fire affects the tourism meeting depends mainly on where you travel. The mountain fire caused the closure of four roads. Bian Xiao still advises everyone to travel carefully.

The continuous high temperature and windy weather has caused mountain fires in many places in Spain. At the same time, due to the lack of forest land management in mountainous areas, weeds and dead trees are overgrown, which makes the mountain fire develop too fast and the fire is more difficult to control. The continuous high temperature and windy weather make it more difficult to control the mountain fires that affect communities in Madrid and Toledo provinces. On June 28th, mountain fires first broke out in the communities of Aarmo Locks in Toledo Province and Cardoso-Drus Bidrios and Senishentos in Madrid. As a result, four roads (M-54 1, M-542, M-507 and M-546) in Madrid community were forced to be interrupted, and about 40 people were evacuated to safety.

On June 30, Pas Garcí a Bella, a community official of the Madrid government, said that it is expected that the mountain fires will be difficult to control in the next few hours. According to the data of the Madrid Community Emergency Department, the fire area is about 2,700 hectares so far. "I want to say that the mountain fire can be controlled today, but all the signs seem to indicate that this is unlikely to happen," Garcia Bella said after inspecting the fire fighting operation command center.

Pedro Rollan, acting chairman of the Madrid government community, personally inspected the fire fighting operation command center in Senishentos, and said there that it was "practically impossible" to control the fire on June 30th, because the fire was developing rapidly and had begun to spread in two directions.

The Madrid community has launched a second-level emergency plan to deal with the fire. A total of about 500 firefighters, soldiers, police, forest guards and other disaster relief forces have been dispatched, and 1 4 aircraft including 3 seaplanes and1command helicopter have been dispatched.

According to the report, at the same time, firefighters believe that they can control the mountain fire that occurred in Rivera de Hebray (Tarragona province) in Catalonia on the evening of June 30. A local mountain fire broke out on June 26, and the fire area has reached about 6,000 hectares.

On June 30th, in Rivera de Hebray, 34 fire engines, 3 helicopters and other support and command vehicles from Catalonia Autonomous Region participated in the fire fighting operation. The fire brigade of Catalonia Autonomous Region has controlled the crop fires in Tarabella. The burned area of local crops is about 40 hectares.

In Toledo, firefighters have controlled the forest fire that broke out at 8: 34 am on June 30 two days ago. The burned area is about 1600 hectares.

In Castilla-Leó n Autonomous Region, officials from local public works and environmental departments said that the mountain fires still raging in Avila may be caused by human factors.

At the same time, in Cartagena, Murcia Autonomous Region, about 80 firefighters and four helicopters controlled the forest fire reported on the afternoon of June 30 within four hours.

Reasons The "super mountain fires" in Spain in recent years, such as the recent mountain fires in Galicia Province 20 15 and Tarragona Province, are called "the sixth generation of mountain fires". There are several reasons and characteristics that make them different, and lead to the discussion about the lack of forest land management in mountainous areas.

What happened in Spain in recent decades can make mountain fires produce a "microclimate", which spreads so fast that it can destroy several kilometers of woodland in a few hours.

Mark Castellnou, head of the forest fire department of Catalonia Autonomous Region, pointed out: "We gave up the management of mountainous forest land and rural areas, and we chose to reduce intervention. Our society ignores the local economy in mountainous areas and the traditional role of rural areas. This eventually led to the vast forest and its rich resources being completely forgotten. "

According to the report, poor management has led to the gradual change of soil composition in mountainous forest land and become more and more barren. Lack of intervention means that weeds and dead trees can be seen everywhere and accumulate more and more. This has formed a huge "fuel depot", which is difficult to stop once it is ignited. When a mountain fire occurs, its development and spread speed can easily exceed the progress of fire fighting.

In addition, experts also pointed out that climate change has made Spaniards accustomed to long-term drought and frequent windy weather, which accelerated the desertification of mountain grasslands, which is one of the reasons why mountain fires are more fierce and difficult to control.