During the ceremony of the ‘Bronze Bronze Doves in Madrid’, held on the morning of this August 15, the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has announced new aid for those affected after the last fires caused, such as three songs, which has calcined more than 1,000 hectares forcing 180 people from their homes.
“What needs to be done is to keep the fields much cleaner, stop rigid bureaucracy many times by pressure groups that prevent us from cleaning margins of the rivers, clearing and that are carried away by ideological agendas that are not effective,” said Ayuso, who has defended that the key is in prevention and not in multiplying the means once the fire is declared.
Aid for those affected by fires
Among the measures announced by the President, highlights the reduction of the water rate for the affected owners for a year through the social rate, “since the affected areas need much more water,” as the president has stressed, the replacement of cattle for those who have lost their herds, and direct aids both to individuals and employees destined to clean the damaged areas.
However, from the Community of Madrid they avoid specifying the number of affected owners or the total amount of the aid that will be allocated. Nor has the exact deadline been clarified in which the victims may receive these compensation.
Also, Ayuso wanted to emphasize his government’s commitment to preventive grazing: “We have been committed to preventive grazing for years. We have 21,000 head of cattle for this,” he stressed, in reference to a strategy that, according to his executive, has shown efficacy against forest fires.
The president, in addition, has framed these measures in a context of recent catastrophes, such as the Dana, and has insisted that “at the time a devastating fire comes, from three to four planes, the difference does not change practically. The effect is so devastating that the fundamental thing is to prevent throughout the year,” he concluded.