Les Rotes neighbors want a firewall and an evacuation plan for the area

On the afternoon of Monday, and when four days had passed since the residents of Les Rotes lived hours of anguish, those affected in that area by the Montgó fire gathered to talk about the necessary improvements so that they do not live again. panic situations that occurred during the evacuation of the area on Thursday afternoon.

According to the neighbors denounce, the chaotic evacuation of the area forced to wait around 2 hours and a half the arrival of firefighters, since the only exit road was the road of Les Rotes, a narrow area that makes difficult the passage.

That is why in the meeting they had agreed on some points to move to the municipal consistory to avoid situations such as those experienced during the fire.

In the first place, the residents will demand an evacuation plan for Les Rotes for emergency situations that will help prevent moments of panic and chaos from happening again; a perimeter firebreak in the Lloma del Castanyar area that makes it difficult for the fire to reach the housing area and that the Town Halls, both of Dénia and Jávea, oblige the owners to keep their plots clean. Regarding this last request, the neighbors added that the owners who do not do so be punished by charging them the IBI of the plot as if it were built.

They also add to their demands the creation of a surveillance unit on the road to Cabo de San Antonio that is operational during the hottest months of the year and that the Generalitat Valenciana is asked to install a permanent base for the helicopters. Air tractor in Dénia or in Jávea.