The deployment has also led to state intervention in the national media region located outside
Murcia also has benefited from the intervention of the Emergency Military Unit fires in La Union and Calasparra
The Government delegate SEPRONA highlights research on fire in Calasparra, which resulted in two arrests
The Government delegate, Rafael González Tovar, visited the base of the Alberquilla, before the uprising ends the operation deployed by the Ministry of Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs (MARM), in Murcia and the rest the national territory, and intended to support devices in different regions to deal with forest fires.
As reported at the time, in the Region of Murcia was incorporated last June at the base of the Alberquilla in the town of Caravaca de la Cruz, a helicopter water bomber (4,500 liters) brand Kamov EC-KFZ that, as part of a national mechanism, had as preferred areas for action, in addition to our region, the Valencia, Andalucia and Castilla - La Mancha.
For the same reason of being a supra-operating, Murcia also included as a preferred area of performance of other media headquartered outside their boundaries.
It was, in particular with two amphibious aircraft with 5,500 liters of cargo, operating from Malaga, and another that made it from Los Llanos (Albacete), plus two helicopters as he has been in the Alberquilla, which were located in Huelma (Jaén) and Villares Jadraque (Guadalajara), two helicopter transport brigades (each composed by a helicopter of 10/12 seats and 1,500 liters of cargo, plus 3 squads with nine people), whose headquarters have been in Daroca (Zaragoza) and the Esquiladores Prado (Cuenca) and a communications and observation aircraft operating from Muchamiel (Alicante).
In this regard, González Tovar said that there have been two possibilities, since the Kamov located in La Alberquilla has acted in the region and beyond, while the forest fire on the occasion of Calasparra moved to the area news outlets in other regions mentioned above.
González Tovar added Murcia also has had the possibility of intervention of the Military Emergency Unit that, nationally, it has a total of 3,000 troops, half of them to direct work of firefighting and the other half, operational and logistical support.
The government delegate said that when it needs the intervention of the EMU, it is ordered by the Minister of Defence in light of the circumstances of each case and says that the EMU is ready to intervene no later Murcia more than four hours from the authorization to intervene.
In this regard, he recalled the journey to the region from its base in Bétera (Valencia), due to a fire in the area of La Union in early summer and later in the burning of Calasparra.
With regard to EMU, González Tovar has also highlighted that at the end of last September and in collaboration with the Red Cross, held in Eagles a training exercise ahead of possible interventions in flood emergencies.
Finally, Gonzalez Tovar noted participation in the case of forest fires of the Civil Guard, both in prevention and extinction of those as in their research.
On this aspect of the work, stressed that made by the SEPRONA on fire in Calasparra, which culminated in the arrest of two alleged perpetrators.
Source: Delegación del Gobierno en Murcia