Around one o’clock on Friday, several calls to emergency services warned that there was a fire in Seseña. It was the largest landfill used in Spain and considered the largest in Europe tires. The deposit tire burning.
This cemetery rubber was declared illegal in September 2015 and is located between Valdemoro and Seseña, it was anticipated eliminate in the next months according to an agreement with the European Commission on the Environment. The first investigation of the incident was intentional estimate that, since the area was very wet by heavy rains in recent days.
Early Saturday morning, authorities stressed that the fire was “totally confined and delimited “and stressed that it could be totally off up to four days.
Given the magnitude of the flames and the smoke generated, the Government of Castilla-La Mancha activated the level 2 alert. The Community of Madrid also activated (level 1) and cut for hours several kilometers from the R-4 highway. Additional Quiñón Sesena, a popular urbanization raised only a few hundred meters from the cemetery tire was cleared by decision of the Government Castilian manchego to the risk that the cloud of smoke affect the population. In the urbanization live about 9,000 people, but many of them had already been left the area voluntarily throughout the day.
The flames were up to 60 meters away from the surrounding villages to the landfill, but the no smoke. Several people had to be treated for smoke inhalation in the urbanization of Pocero. For its part, the City of Seseña ordered the closure of schools in the area and the local police launched a recommendation asking citizens, especially those who suffer from respiratory problems, not to leave their homes.
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