A 47 -year -old man has been arrested on Tuesday as an alleged guilty of one of the main forest fires caused in the region of Orense. The male would be the provocative of fire in the municipality of Vilardevóson August 1. The fire, which razed almost 600 hectares And it caused two minor injured, it could be extinguished on August 8.
The Civil Guardwithin the so -called Operation Free penaltieshas arrested man near the 15:50 hours This Tuesday, as reported by the local newspaper The region. The Benemérita agents They found the whereabouts of the arrest, which according to the aforementioned medium responds to the initial EF, in their own home.
The detainee, who has already been previously convicted of provoking other fires in the past, is accused of causing the fire that, once spread, burned 578’6 hectares in Orensestarting in Vilardevós to finally affect a total of seven adjacent locations. It also caused two minor injured and the confinement of two villages.
Orense is one of the regions of Spain more affected by forest fires that have caused a serious crisis in the peninsular territory during the month of August. Fires in the region of Galicia They have already calcined 7% of their territory, according to official data, with More than 60,000 hectares razed in the province, which causes the alert 2 for fires to be fully maintained.
The arrest, by the Civil Guardof the citizen who would have caused the fire of Viladevós On August 1, the National Police, which has arrested a minor in Santiago de Compostela accused of being author of seven fires in the month of August in different neighborhoods of the Galician city.
He arrest It has occurred within the framework of the actions carried out by officials of the police station National Police In Santiago de Compostela, in collaboration with the Local Police, for fire prevention.
