The Mayors of the 4 municipalities affected by the Los Guájares fireplace have made a joint petition to have their villages declared Zona Catatrófica.

The mentioned municipalities, that are El Pinar, El Valle, Los Guájares and Albuñuelas, hope to obtain funding this manner with a purpose to set about restoring the broken mountain areas, in addition to farms that misplaced their bushes or irrigation programs.

Though regional governments can request this consideration, it’s the Central Authorities’s Board of Ministers which would give the approval. What the mayors need is for representatives from the Central Authorities, the Junta de Andalucia and the Provincial Council to bodily come to the affected areas and see it for themselves, relatively than cross the buck between them.

Mayor Antonio Mancilla (Los Guájares), Mayor Francisco Titos (El Pinar), Mayor Sandra García (El Valle) and Mayor José Díaz (Albuñuelas) met yesterday to organise themselves to this finish. One in all their duties is to make an official estimation of the price of the injury. Nevertheless, it’s nonetheless too early to have the ability to do that as there are burnt areas which have hotspots able to reviving. On the assembly there have been additionally farmers and enterprise house owners from the tourism sector.

(Information: El Pinar/El Valle/Los Guájares/Albuñélas, Valle de Lecrin/Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)