Deep within the burned heart of the Sierra de Espadán natural park
The Vall d'Uixó fire has left 3,750 hectares turned into a landscape of ash, charred trees and smoke that still emerges from the ground a week later.
It's as if it had snowed in the middle of August. But it's not snow, it's ash. The 3,750 hectares burned within the Sierra de Espadán natural park have been covered with a white blanket that reveals the violence of the fire: the clearer the ground, the higher the temperature reached by the flames, up to 700 degrees. A pine tree about 30 years old has ended up collapsing on the slope.
Its trunk has opened in two and a dense column of smoke continues to come out of the wound. Emergency services are monitoring it because any gust of wind can revive the fire. Around it, the trees that still remain standing keep the black of soot on their trunks and consumed tops. Those that did not resist lie crossed over the paths. People have been able to save their houses. Many animals, on the other hand, have lost theirs.
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