Three large fire fronts, a trio that has already become part of the record of the worst fires in Galicia, continue to threaten the province of Orense for another day, which concentrates the seven active fires today in the Galician community. An indelible mark of devastation and perceptible both at ground level and from the images provided by satellites that represent, together with the other active sources, approximately 64,000 hectares burned in the province of Orense. However, taking into account those stabilized and the whole of Galicia, the figure already exceeds 70,000 hectares of burned area , close to the estimates of the summer of 2006 and the"Black August" that remained imprinted in the memory of the Galicians as the worst summer in terms of fires.

Since the weekend, the fire that started in the parish of Seadur, in the Orense municipality of Larouco, continues to be the most advanced and the one that generates the most concern among the extinguishing teams, made up of more than a thousand firefighters, volunteers, police, military personnel and the neighbors themselves armed with cauldrons, shovels or any other tool at their disposal. With approximately 20,000 hectares burned, it is already the worst affected in the history of Galicia, and its consequences have been palpable for days in the region of Valdeorras, where the flames advance through multiple municipalities such as A Rúa, Petín, Quiroga, O Barco de Valdeorras, Rubiá, O Bolo, Carballeda de Valdeorras, Vilamartín de Valdeorras, O Bolo, A Veiga and Vilamartín de Valdeorras.

While hundreds of firefighters, technicians, agents - among them members of the UME -, as well as ten helicopters, twelve airplanes and 58 motor pumps are deployed to face these flames, the residents of the Valdeorras region have been suffering for days outages in telecommunications, in the water supply and are lacking services such as garbage collection, while a toxic cloud fueled by the fire at the A Rúa clean point and a nearby car components factory gains space on the horizon.

And, less than 30 kilometers away, the second most devastating fire in the history of Galicia - surpassed on Monday by the Larouco fire - remains without progress although under constant surveillance and irrigation, still considered active, in the municipality of Chandrexa de Queixa. The union of several scattered outbreaks converged in this large fire, which affects an approximate area of 17,500 hectares including other municipalities such as Manzaneda, Montederramo, A Pobra de Trives, O Bolo and Laza.

Also above 15,000 is the fire that started this Tuesday in the parish of A Granxa, in the municipality of Oímbra, where three different sources also joined together in a large front of flames and ash, reaching 15,000 hectares of affected surface, also in the municipalities of Xinzo de Limia, Monterrei, Cualedro, Verín, Laza, Trasmiras, Castrelo do Val and Baltar.

A fire front that is practically on the border with Portugal and very close to the fire that started in the parish of A Esculqueira, in the municipality of A Mezquita, where the latest report from the Consellería do Medio Rural estimates an affected area of 10,000 hectares.