Video: Eleven aircraft and more than 50 specialists on the ground stabilise major wildfire in Montecorto

A second wildfire in Malaga province was declared yesterday Friday 4 July. After the flames at the Ermita de las Tres Cruces fire in Cártama were brought under control, the Junta de Andalucía's Plan Infoca forest fire brigade reported that its specialist wildfire crews were working on another fire in Montecorto in the north of the province, near the border with Cadiz. It appears that the origin of the blaze was a vehicle fire which was reported shortly before five o'clock in the afternoon.

Due to the speed it was spreading, Plan Infoca had to increase the number of aerial resources working in the area. Two light amphibious planes, one coordination plane and another two heavy amphibious planes, seven helicopters (one command and control, three heavy and three semi-heavy) wwre deployed. A total of eleven aircraft and fifty ground personnel worked to control a fire marked by the wind.

According to the information provided by Infoca, the fire affected areas of grass, scrubland and wooded scrubland, far from population centres, and the main active part was the "head" because it was oriented to the wind.

Also working on the ground were two fire engines, three groups of forest firefighters and four reinforcement fire brigades, four operation protection technicians, an environmental agent and a command and control group. The deployment was completed by a forest fire analysis and monitoring unit and a medical team.

By 11.35pm it was declared stabilised, while crews remained on the scene through the night to working to extinguish the flames.