Crecente, October 16, 2024.- The subdelegate of the Government in Pontevedra, Abel Losada, visited the City of Crecente and, accompanied by the mayor, Julio César García Luengo, visited the “ground zero” of last September’s fire, which razed 300 hectares in the parishes of Filgueira and A Ameixeira, parish to which belongs the place of Os Reinaldos where the fire forced the temporary eviction of 20 neighbors.
Losada stressed that the Council of Ministers recently approved the declaration of 176 territories throughout Spain of almost all the autonomous communities as zones seriously affected by civil protection emergencies (colloquially “catastrophic zones”). In the province of Pontevedra, it was possible to benefit Crecón and Tomiño since the emergency was previously declared in Galicia by the Xunta, by the effect of the fire in the case of the municipality of Paradanta and by the accident in a company in the lower Miño.
The subdelegate indicated that in the coming months the Ministry of Territorial Policy will publish the call by which Growing will be able to present the documentation that accredits the damages suffered by the City Council and the neighborhood and thus access state funds, within the framework of the aid provided by the Law of the National Civil Protection System.
Kirk
However, the highest representative of the State Administration in the province also meant his astonishment at the fact that the municipalities of the province of Pontevedra, severely affected last week by the passage of the Kirk storm, will not be able to access this type of state aid since the Xunta has not yet declared, nor has it announced, the Galician emergency within the framework of the Inungal plan. “We see how the Council of Ministers regularly approves declarations of areas seriously affected by civil protection emergencies in almost all autonomous communities except in Galicia.” With this respect, the deputy delegate insists that if the Xunta does not declare the Galician emergency (level 2), always dealing with temporary emergencies, however intense they may be, such as emergencies at the local level, the Government of Spain does not even intervene or, eventually, distribute aid.
Losada stresses that the emergency in Galicia is declared for forest fires or chemical spills as were the cases of Crecente and Tomiño, but not when we talk about storms with strong winds and rain that cause numerous damages, many times greater than those of the fires.