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The Prosecutor's Office will monitor that the municipalities adopt measures to prevent forest fires

Urges extreme control in the face of high temperatures and low rainfall.

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The Prosecutor's Office will monitor that the municipalities adopt measures to prevent forest fires

Urges extreme control in the face of high temperatures and low rainfall

MADRID, 22 May. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The head of the Environment Unit of the State Attorney General's Office (FGE), Antonio Vercher, has urged prosecutors to be extremely vigilant to prevent fires, specifically urging them to ensure that the municipalities in whose municipal area there is surface forestry have the corresponding preventive plans.

As reported by the Public Ministry in a statement, they will also carry out control tasks of the regulated cases for the autonomous communities, especially in aspects related to the illegal burning of stubble.

In a letter addressed to the delegated prosecutors of this specialty, Vercher stressed that fire prevention "is a priority for the Prosecutor's Office", for which he calls for "a greater commitment from all the authorities with competence in the matter".

The objective, he explains, is that "prosecutors have the precise information so that they can make a composition of time and place about these accidents and can coordinate the actions of the competent institutions."

In this regard, it recalls that "the initiative of the Public Prosecutor's Office to indicate to administrations, owners and companies that own landfills, power lines, railway lines, recreational areas, and even camps located in forest areas, the obligation to adopt measures prevention measures, since these are places with a high risk of forest fires".

The Public Prosecutor argues that "the gradual increase in temperatures and the lower volume of rainfall in general make it necessary to be extremely vigilant."

In this sense, it points out that in the first quarter of 2023 there have already been 2,408 accidents, two of them large fires with an affected area of ​​more than 41,000 hectares, not including the one that occurred in Asturias.

It also points out that 2022 was one of the worst years since there was a record regarding the effects of forest fires. According to data from the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Change, provided by the autonomous communities, the affected forest area (267,939.64 hectares) almost tripled the average of the last 10 years (94,249.00 ha).

On the other hand, it stands out that the number of large forest fires (those that exceed 500 hectares) was almost three times higher: 57 in 2022, compared to the average of the last 10 years, which stands at 21.