Latest statement from the Generalitat (not my translation):
"The Firefighters worked overnight with 80 land allocations in the fire yesterday afternoon in the burn Ribera d'Ebre. In addition to ground units, working seven and two seaplanes aerial Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Emergency Military Unit (9 120 troops and vehicles) and heavy machinery.
The fire has a perimeter of 128 kilometers, 14 kilometers long, and has already affected more than 4,000 hectares affected several municipalities: Torre Espanyol Vinebre, Palma de Ebro, Flix and Maials, according to the latest estimate of the Corps of Rural Agents. There is a thirty people evacuated from the houses that are in the area.
There are currently five roads cut : the C12 (between Maials and Flix), the T703 (the Palme d'Ebre), the C233 (between Bovera and Flix), the T714 (Tower Spanish) and T2237 (between Vinebre and Palma d'Ebre).
Civil Protection of the Government has activated the alert phase of Plan Forest Fire Catalonia, INFOCAT . Remains active also alert PROCICAT Plan."
edit: original in Catalan
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