Municipal spokesman IU-Greens, Pepe Murcia, has argued this morning that the fire that destroys the Sierra del Almirez in Lorca not only be read in the key of fate, or as a result of the falling of a thunderbolt.
To do further reading and whether Lorca, and our region are really prepared first to prevent and then to fight forest fires.
Drought has become a powder keg our mountains are pure fuel, but precisely for this reason all the preventive measures are few.
There should be cleaning and pruning work in the mountains, we have enough teams for prevention and extinction, and comprises us, and they denounce wildland firefighters themselves, the cuts have done much damage in the body, preventive investments forests, and they have noticed significantly with a drastic reduction in staff.
Pepe Murcia says that with the current climate situation, resulting from global warming, with increasingly prolonged droughts and rising temperatures, we must seriously consider the management of our forests, in the town of Lorca are quite small.
In this regard IU-V will ask the Mayor that report, and report in turn to the people of Lorca, on the fire on its size, on the preventive work that may have failed, on the coordination work of the different bodies involved in the fighting, about the responsibilities in his case this would generate, on the means used, on the best ways to tackle environmental restoration of the burned area, and prevention measures to be taken forward to prevent catastrophes such as occurred.
Source: IU-verdes Lorca