The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and the Natural Environment has declared Fire Alert 4 –the highest level– in Mallorca and Menorca, for which reason the authorizations to use fire in any open space are suspended, as well as pyrotechnic material or of machinery or equipment that can generate deflagration, sparks or electrical discharges.

Likewise, the department has also activated the Fire Alert 3 for Ibiza and Formentera, a situation that “is expected to be common in the coming days, even weeks, especially while this episode of extreme temperatures lasts”, added the Ministry in a statement.

The regulations for the use of fire have recently been updated to adapt it to state regulations and, on the website alertafoc.caib.es, the maps with the alert levels for meteorological risk of forest fires on the different islands are published daily, according to with the information and notices published by the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) and the danger analysis carried out by the Forest Management Service and the Forest Fire Communications Center. In Fire Alert 2, the meteorological risk of forest fire becomes moderate or high, according to Aemet, and without warnings for adverse meteorological phenomena.

Fire Alert 3 involves the formal activation of warnings due to adverse meteorological phenomena –winds, maximum temperatures, heat waves or storms–, regardless of Aemet's risk of forest fire, or when unique circumstances arise based on the danger analysis.

Lastly, Fire Alert 4 occurs with a very high or extreme meteorological risk of forest fire, or when unique circumstances occur based on the hazard analysis, regardless of the existence of warnings for adverse meteorological phenomena applicable to the alert level..