New evacuations due to fire in the province of Ávila. According to the Government delegate in Castilla y León, Nicanor Sen, the inhabitants of seven other towns in Ávila have had to leave with just a bag containing their papers and some clothes. These are Piedralaves, La Adrada, Casillas, Casavieja, Sotillo de La Adrada, Santa María del Tietar, and Navahondilla. The population received an ES-Alert message on mobile phones located in the affected areas. Throughout Saturday morning, new towns have been evacuated, and even the command post in Cenicientos has had to be evacuated and will be moved to Navalcarnero. In the Community of Madrid, the number of evacuees is already around 40,000.
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One of the affected municipalities is directly related to the president of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso. It is Sotillo de La Adrada, with about 5,000 inhabitants, the place of origin of her paternal family. In this town, the most populated in the Tiétar valley region, on the slopes of the Sierra de Gredos, the Madrid leader spent her childhood and adolescence summers.
And she continues to visit this place, despite her father’s death more than a decade ago. Her aunts and cousins still live there, a place that the president of the Community of Madrid considers her personal refuge and childhood home. On numerous occasions, Ayuso has declared feeling “half Madrilenian and half from Ávila” due to her deep roots in this town.
Ayuso has sent a message of support to the residents: “When your town or its mountain burns, your house, your animals… In hours, everything you love and have fought for your whole life is lost. My deepest affection to my neighbors in the Tiétar Valley at this time. To my ‘sotillanos’, to all those from this wonderful valley well into the Community of Madrid, all the west, on the way to Robledo de Chavela, who are experiencing this hell.”
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The Government delegate of Castilla y León has detailed that the evacuations, which are carried out as a precaution due to the foreseeable change in wind, will be done via the roads in the south of the province of Ávila and the north of Toledo.
And the situation of the fire started in Burgohondo has worsened due to the wind. In the case of Piedralaves, furthermore, the evacuation of part of the municipality has been decreed. Specifically, residents in the areas near the Sports Center, Virgen de Sonsoles, Comadilla, and the upper part of Doctor Vasallo are being transferred to Arenas de San Pedro, as a preventive measure to guarantee their safety.
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The fire has already reached El Casar de Escalona since approximately 11:30 AM. The change in wind has severely affected Cadalso de los Vidrios, bypassing the firebreaks that were made last night, and the groups from El Casar de Escalona and Torrijos have been activated to the La Granjita estate at the request of the Cadalso de los Vidrios Town Council.
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