Pedro Sanchez for the devastating fires of August: “We had a clearly inadequate policy of prevention”

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez acknowledged “clearly inadequate” today that there was a policy on the prevention of fires, as August was marked by historical fires in the country. “We had a clearly inadequate prevention policy, which is reflected, for example, in the absence of prevention plans, in the absence of sophisticated analysis or prediction tools, or in the fact that some Regions do not have enough firefighters or forest fire units,” the prime minister said. More than 3,430,000 acres have been burned in Spain since the beginning of the year, according to data from the European Forestry Information System (EFFIS) owned by the European Copernicus Observatory, with the number being a record for the country. 2022 was the worst year for burnt areas in Spain with 3,060,000 acres of charred land. Portugal has the European record of compliance in 2006 with 5,630,000 acres of burned land in 2017 in […]
Source: News Beast

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