Alhaurin De La Torre – The Big Clean Up

Alhaurín de la Torre assembly has group speech much than €1.5 cardinal of their yearly fund to occurrence prevention and cleanup efforts which will free complete 510,000 quadrate metres of perchance flammable undergrowth, create firebreaks, and cleanable up nationalist plots, ditches, agrarian paths, and streambeds. 

Mayor Joaquín Villanova explained nan captious value of these measures successful minimising nan consequence and effect of imaginable wildfires, peculiarly successful nan urban-forest area connected nan broadside of nan mountain.

The actions, which are being managed by nan Environment and Operational Services departments, are putting astir of their attraction connected vegetation power and clearing successful high-risk areas, pinch much intensive efforts from April to June. A squad of 30 workers will support a 25-metre-wide firebreak covering 12.5 kilometres on nan Sierra de Mijas, connecting urbanisations specified arsenic Pinos de Alhaurín, Fuensanguínea, and others. Additionally, 400,000 quadrate metres of nationalist land are to beryllium maintained astatine a costs of €200,000 annually.

The efforts dream to trim flammable vegetation, heighten information for pedestrians and vehicles, and facilitate firefighting, each nan while avoiding a repetition of nan devastating occurrence of 2022. Villanova credited nan cleared firebreaks for limiting nan dispersed of that occurrence successful nan Sierra de Mijas, on pinch a fortunate upwind shift.

2025 has truthful acold been nan worst twelvemonth successful Spain for wildfires, which person wreaked havoc connected half a cardinal hectares of earthy land, and praised nan tireless activity of civil, military, and unpaid services successful bringing nan fires nether control.

Despite nan important investment, Villanova stressed that “no magnitude of prevention is enough” and insisted that nationalist and location governments supply much backing for councils to bolster occurrence prevention. He besides reminded spot owners of their work to support backstage plots, informing of hefty fines and imaginable ineligible action for non-compliance, specified arsenic pinch barbecues and stubble burning successful fields, which is still banned until November.