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A good-sized fire swept through the early hours of Thursday afternoon about 60 hectares of scrub and pine range of Los Sanchez Tentegorra, which were made just before practice for armed forces personnel.

The fire originated about 13.30 hours and involved troops from extinction Fire Station Cartagena, Civil Protection, Autonomous helicopters, Local Police and National Police.

Given the rugged terrain and difficult access, firefighting resources were made primarily with air, while Cartagena Firefighters focused on controlling the fire in the lower area of the shooting range, located in the vicinity of Mount Roland, to prevent spread to the pine forests of the residential area of Tentegorra.

The wind was changing to live moments of uncertainty, since about seven o'clock in the afternoon, the emergency services got tipped off campers El Portus, The Escarihuelas and Galifa, while the ash fell on homes in Quarry.

In the tasks involving a total of some 200 troops deployed in the area human, four helicopters, two planes of Civil Protection and seaplane continuing steadily poured water on the different sources of fire, water after loading their tanks in the dam of Guide.

The fire was controlled late in the afternoon.

Until two-thirty in the morning, firefighters remained effective Cartagena, cooling embers to prevent reactivation and has given extinguished at ten o'clock this morning.

Both the Minister for the Environment, Benito Mercader, as Mayor, Pilar Barreiro, appeared at the scene.

Merchant announced that the Autonomous Community shall investigate and demand all the responsibilities it deems appropriate, as it can not be otherwise in such cases, while the mayor, said that in his capacity as MP and member of the Defence Committee to take Congress, a parliamentary initiative to request the Ministry to monitor and regulate military practices in times of special risk of fire, that there is no repetition of such incidents.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena