The fire forced to evict a thousand people in Dénia

Around a thousand people were evacuated on Thursday night from their homes between the Lloma del Castanyar area and the Torre del Gerro and up to the Poblet crossing on the road to the Routes Denia.

Of these, only 26 near midnight went to the pavilion Joan Fuster, enabled the occasion with beds and more than 200 rations of food and drink. In addition, the Hospitality Association gave rooms in different hotels in the city for people with disabilities affected by the fire could spend the night.

Up to the command post, installed in the College San Vicent Ferrer de Les Rotes, the mayor of Dénia moved, Ana Kringe; several councilors of the municipal corporation; the mayor of the local police chief, Jose Martinez Espasa; the head of the Regional Park Fire, José Melenchón; Red Cross president, José Francisco Montiel, and the Minister of Interior of the Generalitat, Luís Santamaría.

Chronology of fire

In the 16 hours of Thursday, the emergency 112 of Valencia he received a call warning of fire in the Cabo de San Antonio, in the municipality of Jávea, at the height of the mills.

Minutes later, at 16: 15, fire and played Dianense term and proceeded to cut the road from Les plans up to the Barranc of Monyo. Since that time there have been numerous troops mobilized emergency: 5 helicopters, 5 pumpers, 5 forest brigades, 2 aircraft, 1 patrol Regional Police, 1 Patrol National Police, 8 patrols of the local police of Denia boat supplies and volunteers of Red Cross and Civil Defense volunteers 26.

In the 17 hours the command post in the shooting of Javea and half an hour later, at 17 settled: 31, the City of Dénia decided to suspend activities in the sports center Joan Fuster while the first occurred evictions in areas of Lloma the Castanyar and Gerro Tower. Around 18: 14 hours came the first residents evacuated to the sports center.

The command post has been moved to restaurant Mena at 18: 30 hours and then we proceeded to cut the road from Les Rotes from crossing with Les Planes until the end. 20 hours around the command post moved to San Vicent Ferrer school, where the work of extinction were coordinated.

22 hours came just after the troops of the UME (Military Emergency Unit) to assist in the work. As explained from the County Fire Brigade, the military would follow to the end zone Les Rotes and the road of Les Plans to limit as much as possible the perimeter of the fire.

Night work focus on stopping the spread of fire on the left flank, near the road between Denia and Javea, and the right flank, located in the incio the fire. It is scheduled to 7: 30 morning air assets back to work extinction.

Wounded and rescued

During the afternoon, Red Cross members rescued a total of 25 people in the Cova Tallada that they had agreed before the fire started and that they could not return by land.

Also note that one of the volunteers suffered an anxiety attack and had to be evacuated from the area where he was working.

false images shake the network and increase alertness among neighbors

From almost the beginning of the flames, it was the focus of internet information. Images of all kinds flooded social networks, becoming viral in a matter of minutes.

But many of these images do not correspond to the reality that existed at that time both Denia and Javea. Thus, an image of a green house in flames spread like wildfire as if a house were Dianense, when it was not.

Also the audio was viralized in which a citizen claimed to have heard that the fire chief of the Community told the mayor that the fire could not be controlled, that everything had to be destroyed and that "when he has nothing to burn, it will go out. " This content was denied by the mayor herself, who made an appeal to the public to avoid increasing the social soul that already creates an event of these characteristics.