Fires recorded in the last 15 years have been analyzed to locate the most sensitive areas and propose more appropriate measures
Benidorm City Council has drafted a Local Plan for the Prevention of Forest Fires with the objective of defining the actions to be carried out to minimize the risk of fires in the municipality. The document has been ruled today in an information commission and will be raised to the end of the month in the plenary session, as informed by Councilor for the Environment, José Ramón González de Zárate.
De Zárate has stressed that "it is necessary to work on prevention, involving citizens in general and forest owners in particular," and do so "with a plan in which the regulation on the prohibition".
The responsible for the Environment has detailed that at the time of writing this local plan, with which "we fulfilled a plenary agreement proposed by the Citizens group" (Cs), "the 42 forest fires that have been registered in Benidorm in the last 15 years, in order to determine the causes, the area that has been burned and the most sensitive areas. All this information "allows the proposed actions are the most appropriate to prevent new fires or attacks."
This Local Forest Fire Prevention Plan has "a ten-year validity", although "there is an ordinary review scheduled for the five to see the results and determine if changes need to be made." In addition, if a prevention plan for the Forest Demarcation to which Benidorm belongs is approved, "another revision would be made in order to adapt it".
De Zárate explained that once the document is approved in full, it will be exposed to the public for possible claims. In the meantime, "we will talk to the Firefighters, the Water Consortium and the irrigators" to try to "increase the power in the used water line that we have launched all the forest areas to have more hydrants or fire from which can act immediately in a fire event. "