In the middle of April se inition prForest Ecampaña. During this time, firefighters have already carried out prevention actions, which will now be expanded to the maximum with the entrance of the months of more heat and worse perspectives.
The preventive tasks of the campaign are carried out in three Basic coverage areas of the Sierra de Collserlawhere daily tours are made:
- Park of Vallvidrerabetween the area of the hill of the Forat del Vent and the road of Santa Creu d’Olorda.
- Parks of the Vall d’Hebron and the Eixampleon the environments of the Las Aigües road, the Vallvidrera road and the northern slope of the tunnel.
- St. Andrew Parkin the area of the Alta de les Roquetes road, Torre Baró, the road of the cemetery and city Meridiana.
The fire campaign begins with ‘Good foot’
The Forest Fire Surveillance and Prevention campaign in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona has started this week with some weather conditions, fire risk and “quite positive” forest masses.
This is explained by the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (AMB) in a statement issued this Thursday, where These “good perspectives” should not mean “relaxing”so it is necessary to “maintain the effort of surveillance, communication and coordination” between the different surveillance bodies and with citizenship.
Las favorable conditions in forest fire surveillanceS, which generate “more optimism” than those of the last summers, are due to “common for the time” temperatures and the abundant rainfall of this spring, mainly. In fact, accumulated precipitation until May 15 has been more than 300 mm in some points of the Collserola Serra, which means that 60 % of the average annual rain has already been reached.
This “new situation,” explains the AMB, has brought a Improvement in the state of vegetation and a low fire dangerTrend present practically in all 2025 in the Serra de Collserola: this year, there have been five fires, compared to the nine registered for these same dates of 2024.
Given this positive perspective, the Active Surveillance Period will begin in early June and the device will be reinforced until Septemberseason in which the maximum risk of fire is expected. The function of this device, which will be active in the 36 Metropolitan municipalities and is coordinated by the Consortium of the Serra de Collserola Natural Park, is to actively monitor the territory and alert smoke columns.
On the campaign last summer, the AMB considers that it was “one of the best” of recent years, with 40 fire conatos -a fire of a fire, which is not consummated– Throughout the Metropolitan Zone of Barcelona, compared to 71 detected in 2023.
In 2024, the main cause of fire were the alleged negligence, with 12 related fireswhile ten had no known origin; Nine were allegedly intentional, six caused by accident, two remain under investigation and one was for natural causes. EFE / ECOticias.com