The Generalitat Firefighters have declared the Capafonts forest fire, in Tarragona, controlled, declared this Sunday in a rugged area near Pont de Goi. The corps maintains the operation on the ground to complete the extinction and prevent the fire from becoming entrenched in ravines or hard-to-reach points.
The alert was received at 11:53 hours and mobilized 15 crews, two of them surveillance and attack aircraft. The intervention has been carried out from the ground, with water and hand tools, in an environment that complicated access and forced to secure the perimeter quickly.
"The Capafonts fire controlled at 3:22 p.m. We continue making discharges with aerial means. We are with 15 units" - Firefighters, official account of Firefighters on X
The operation continues in the area to close the extinction
Although the fire has already been declared controlled, the Firefighters continue to carry out water discharges in the Capafonts area. The priority in this phase is to cool the ground and consolidate the work done during the first hours of the emergency, especially in an orography where any hot spot can easily reactivate.
The fire would have originated near Pont de Goi. From the first moment, the device focused on preventing the flames from advancing towards ravines or getting stuck in places of complicated access, a circumstance that usually prolongs extinction tasks.
Another active forest fire in Montargull
In parallel, the Firefighters are working on another forest fire in Montargull, in the Lleida demarcation. The alert for this second fire arrived at 10:24 hours and to the area have been deployed seven units, one of them aerial.
The fire affects the surroundings of the hermitage of Sant Jaume i Sant Marc de Fórnols. According to the Firefighters, the intensity of the fire is low and there is no wind in the area, conditions that favor perimeter control efforts.
"In Montargull, with 7 crews, one of them aerial, we are working on a forest fire in the area of the hermitage of Sant Jaume i Sant Marc de Fórnols. The intensity is low and there is no wind" - Firefighters, official Firefighters account on X
The two services have forced the distribution of resources during the morning and midday of this Sunday between Tarragona and the demarcation of Lleida. In Capafonts, with the fire already controlled, efforts remain focused on completely securing the area and declaring the fire extinguished when the conditions on the ground allow it.