Overview

• The blaze broke out around 17:00 on Monday beside the Colmenar Viejo landfill, prompting a situación operativa 1 declaration under Madrid’s INFOMA plan.
• Some 28 firefighting crews are supported by forest brigades, six aircraft, twelve ground vehicles and a bulldozer in containment efforts.
• Authorities have ordered precautionary evacuations for nearby homes and deployed Summa 112 medical teams along with a logistics vehicle and an advanced command post.
• A FOCA water bomber dispatched from Salamanca is en route to bolster aerial firefighting capabilities at the scene.
• Emergency coordinators are monitoring the adjacent AVE high-speed rail tracks and the San Pedro tunnel, with no impacts on the infrastructure reported so far.