The Mayor of Totana, Isabel Maria Sanchez, and technical managers recently met Civil Protection firsthand the work performed by operating the unit preventing Forest Fire (UDIF) of the Directorate General for the Environment in the regional park Espuña in the territory that affects Totana.
The visit had the technical advice UDIF chief, Manuel Páez Blázquez, who explained the human device brigades comprising cleaning and conditioning Espuña forest.
City officials checked the work that they are doing at this time of year in the place of Collado Bermejo, consisting of protocols controlled felling trees with a chainsaw, building defense lines using hand tools and self-protective maneuvers forestry, among other .
In the past two years the Ministry of Agriculture and Water has improved its structure firefighting, starting with the creation of the Unit for Forest Fire (UDIF), which has brought together regional planning tasks of defending against these in the field of the natural environment of the Region of Murcia.
Since its launch, the UDIF has been active in restructuring the forest fire fighting.
As a first step it was created, in 2008, the Forest Coordination Center (CECOFOR), built the same year the plan INFOMUR coordination as a whole firefighting device provided by this Council was the moment in which it occurs the fire emergency.
Every year forest fires are a major cause of loss of vegetation on regional forest area, causing ecological changes to natural habitats that require to take measures mainly to preventing and extinguishing them in the event of an outbreak.
As general measures prohibiting throwing matches, tips cigars or cigarettes or ash coals are ignited, outside garbage containers provided for this purpose or authorized landfills, fire or ignite explosive rockets or other similar if their scope may impact on forest land , accumulating fuels, vegetable or otherwise, during the time of danger, in legal consideration land with mountain and / or within 40 meters of it.
Also proceed to the regularization of unauthorized vehicle traffic in scope and in terms of agricultural and forest burning are prohibited them during the time of danger, unless there are exceptional duly authorized.
In the case of recreational areas, authorizing the use of fuelwood outside the period of risk and the use of gas fuel throughout the year, except for the months of July and August, while establishing the use of fire, in these cases, in the hours between sunrise and sunset of the day.
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