Personnel assigned to the Infomur Plan, for fighting forest fires, have controlled a forest fire declared in the Sierra de Benís, in the municipality of Cieza, which remains in a small fire.
Emergency services (112) received calls reporting the fire at 11:07 a.m. One of the forest fire lookout towers confirmed the fire. Environmental agents, Civil Guard patrols, firefighters from the Murcia Region Fire and Rescue Consortium (CEIS), and a helicopter with a firefighting technician and a heliborne forestry brigade were dispatched to the scene.
At 12:06 PM, the firefighting technician declared the fire under control and, shortly afterward, withdrew along with the helicopter-borne brigade and the helicopter. He estimates that just over 500 square meters of wooded land burned.
12:48 p.m. The fire is declared extinguished. The Environmental Crimes Investigation Brigade of the General Directorate of the Natural Environment remains at the scene.
Images provided by firefighters from CEIS and by the Forest Fire Defense Unit of the General Directorate of the Natural Environment.