A forest fire that has been detected this Tuesday in the municipality of Ocentejo (Guadalajara) affects the Alto Tajo Natural Park and has already reached level 1 due to damage to forest goods.

As reported by the Infocam Plan through its Twitter account, media from the Castilla-la Mancha fire plan and the Ministry for Ecological Transition have traveled to the site of the fire, which have activated troops from the Reinforcement Brigade in Forest fires in Pinofranqueado (Cáceres).

Likewise, the Emergencies Coordination Center (GVA) and services sent by the community of Aragón collaborate.

At this time, a device made up of nine air means, 14 land and 93 troops are working on extinction work.

The fire has been active since approximately 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday.

The fire could be caused by human carelessness

The Minister of Sustainable Development, José Luis Escudero, has assured that “everything indicates” that the forest fire was caused by “human carelessness”.. This has been pointed out to questions from the media. “I do not want to venture but everything indicates that in the urban area itself it has originated from human carelessness”, he commented, for which he has taken the opportunity to reiterate the request of the citizens to “extreme caution”, because ” any carelessness can cause us a fire”.

Despite this, he has been “optimistic” with the evolution of the fire that has calcined 226 hectares, pointing out that the work carried out since Tuesday afternoon and that has continued during the night suggests that it will be stabilized “in the next few hours “.