Consell’s plenary session gave the green light to the plan designed to coordinate the following. recovery of affected areas With the fires recorded in this month of August in different parts of the Valencian Community, In Vall d’Ebo and Bejís (Castellon). municipalities for a while 30 days to submit damage estimates infrastructure and public property, and the property of real or legal persons not covered by insurance. The action will be coordinated by: Offices to be established for this purposewill provide advice to both companies and citizens. In this way, it will be within a month that it will be possible to make an initial estimate of the losses from the fire and therefore to know what the economic item Generalitat will allocate as compensation. However, the action of the district administration will not end there. A comprehensive action plan is expected to be presented shortly, as was done in Vega Baja following DANA that devastated the region in 2019, to assist in the socio-economic revitalization of the affected areas.
Two weeks after the first fires were declared, the first of them in Vall d’Ebo, 12,000 hectaresConsell, led by Ximo Puig, launched actions to mitigate the damage. Generalitat’s vice president and Consell’s spokesperson, More, announced this Tuesday its roadmap designed to confront the rescue of the affected areas, the worst fires of the last decade in Bejís, Vall d’Ebo, Les Useres, Petrer, Olocau and the Community affecting the streets. Once the decree on coordination of actions is approved, a one-month countdown begins so that consulates can provide estimates of damage to infrastructure and public property.Agricultural facilities and infrastructures or from other economic sectors other than forestry. In addition, damages that may occur to the movable and immovable properties of real or legal persons not covered by insurance; and extraordinary expenditures urgently due to forest fire, including, where appropriate, relevant documentation.
In particular, the municipalities affected by the Vall d’Ebo forest fire were Vall d’Alcalà, L’Atzúbia, Balones, Benimassot, Castell de Castells, Fageca, Famorca, Orba, Pego, Planes, Tollos, Tormos, Vall d’Ebo. , Vall de Gallinera and Vall de Laguar. Also included is Petrer, who recorded a fire that devastated nearly 100 hectares.
It will be the Valencian Department of Security and Emergency Response under the Ministry of Justice, Interior and Public Administration that will coordinate all the actions of the different departments of Consel and other public administrations in relation to the following actions. should be done for back to normal, from all affected areas as soon as possible. Applications submitted by the local company will be considered by the Emergency Single Office, which will be responsible for making an economic forecast, which will then be submitted to the Interdepartmental Commission for approval by Consell. Moreover, the implementation of the relevant measures can be accomplished through the direct investment procedure or the direct concession procedure. Technicians who are in charge of advising municipalities are expected to go to municipalities to facilitate the work.
A spokesperson for Consell stressed that it is not currently possible to determine the amount of economic item Generalitat will have, as the global damage report needs to be discussed first. However, he thought, as not many homes or industries have been impacted in this environmental crisis, the aid probably doesn’t need to be as large as it was activated after 2019 DANA. According to this newspaper’s report,Of the 12,150 hectares burned in Vall d’ebo, at least 3,000 corresponds to crops, mainly olive, cherry and almond trees, it takes no less than five years to return to minimum productivity if replanted. The losses are therefore around €193 million, to which must be added the destruction of around 10,000 beehives and the different infrastructures affected.
The aid that the Generalitat will channel adds to the aid that the central government will inject into the affected areas after the disaster area has been declared.
Comprehensive plan for reactivation
Mas explained that Consell will soon prepare a comprehensive plan for the socio-economic revitalization of the affected areas, which are also affected by the effects of depopulation. It will do this in coordination with local institutions and organizations located in the affected areas. This plan will design direct assistance to municipalities, subsidized fiscal lines or extraordinary employment schemes. It will also carry out studies for the elimination of the damages caused by the fires and the forest and environmental restoration of the burned municipalities.