Extreme wildfires are those that not only burn the surface of the ground, but are capable of penetrating the innermost layers of the substrate and destroying it. The recovery of the territories of these mega fires can be very distressing and takes much more time.
The Rural Environment Department participated in a European project in which the issue of extreme wildfires. Forest Fire Prevention and Defense Service Staff are part of the Fire-Res initiative.
This is part of the European Fire-Res project on extreme forest fires, in which firefighting personnel participatein particular the forest firefighters of the Toén Integral Fire Fighting Center, located in the province of Orense.
Fire management
The Fire-Res project (Solutions innovative for fire-resilient territories), started in 2021 and will end in 2025, has 35 full partners, including the Xunta de Galicia through the Department of Rural Environment, and which represent 12 countries of the European Union as well as Chile. All are working to combat the threat posed by the new typology of wildfires with a project that highlights the importance of R&D&I.
The objective of this initiative is to achieve a holistic and integrated fire management strategy to effectively combat fires. extreme wildfires in Europe through 11 living labs, thanks to its innovation actions.
In our community the so-called Atlantic Living Laboratory is being developed and we are working on the design and testing of protective measures for the rural centers facing secondary emergencies extreme forest fires, in an attempt to create a safe village model. These living laboratories are carried out in Spain in other territories such as Catalonia and the Canary Islands, but other southern European countries such as Portugal or Greece and northern countries such as Norway or Germany s are also attached.
The Fire-Res project played a leading role in the Third Interlumes International Congress on Forest Fireswhich took place on December 17 and 18 at the Galician Public Safety Academy of A Estrada, with the interventions of David Caballero, forest engineer responsible for the Meteogrid fire zone; Sergio Giácomo Pirone, Commander of Land Operations, Brigadier General and Director of the Advanced Training Center for Civil Protection and Mountain Forest Fires of Piedmont (Italy); and representatives of the Forest Fire Prevention and Defense Service (SPIF).
Ce allowed participants to analyze the problematic interface What does this new threat represent in relation to forest firesnot only for material goods, but also for people.
In Galicia, a living laboratory is being developed in which measures to protect population centers are designed and tested with the aim of creating a model of safe villages against emergencies from extreme wildfires.
