AVOID FIRES AND SAVE LIVES.
Apr 8, 2010 Spain, Fires, Mountain, Nature, Landscapes, Routes, Hiking, Tourism, Tourism, Natural Tourism
Most of you are longing for summer to arrive: sun, beach, mountains, hillwalking…some of many activities you can enjoy in the outdoors during the summer season.
This is all very nice, but unfortunately…good weather also brings with it catastrophes: fires. Just only last year, 2009 was the worst year of the decade during which 70,000 hectares were burnt down, at a cost of 385 million Euros to which we have to add the costs of putting the fire out and preventing it. (Data source: WWF).
Between us all we could reduce these figures; we just have to make a bit of an effort and follow advice such as: don’t throw cigarette ends away in the undergrowth while in the countryside, don’t leave rubbish behind, don’t throw away glass while in the countryside… (more advice from Spain’s emergency service 112).
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