The off-track departure of a rally test vehicle Pujada Aigües Blanques of Ibiza has caused a forest fire at about 13:00 hours next to the road, in the municipality of Santa Eulària, as reported by the firefighters of Ibiza.
As confirmed by the organization, the vehicle that has caused the fire is the car zero, which opens each of the sleeves making the route before the participants. The first task has been held normally and it has been when recognizing the road for the second when the car has gone out in a curve in the middle of the forest, without any injuries, and the vegetation has begun to burn because of the heat, although the occupants have tried to extinguish it with a fire extinguisher…
The race has been suspended and the organization has decided to give as definitive the results of the first round.
Firefighters from the Parque Insular de Bomberos have gone to the place of the fire, which has been considered stabilized at about 4 pm and as controlled at 5:45 pm. They have burned about 1.7 hectares, according to the first estimate. In total three fire engines and ten firefighters have acted to control the flames.
Firefighters have worked in collaboration with Ibanat troops. Thus, they have also gone to the area a helicopter, two fire engines, ten brigadiers, five environmental agents and a technician, as reported on their Twitter account. Both the firefighters and Ibanat personnel are still cooling the area so that the flames do not reproduce.
The fire area
Firefighters have explained that the part of the coast along which the flames have spread is near the area of es Figueral, quite wooded and where there are also several houses.
The area of the fire in Aigües Blanques Google Earth
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