It is forbidden to light fires in recreational areas and controlled camping areas, including barbecues.

A few weeks ago, the Andalusian Regional Government raised the alert level for the risk of iForest fires moving from low level to medium levelThis year's declaration is fifteen days earlier than in recent years, as it was usually signed on May 1. The Councilor for Sustainability, Environment and Blue Economy, Ramón Fernández-Pacheco, has taken this decision because of the weather situation, with high temperatures and a severe droughtThe company's forest fire prevention policy is part of its department's forest fire prevention policy.

In addition, Fernandez-Pacheco has signed an order for the extension of the ban on agricultural burning until April 24, 2010. It should be remembered that this order was signed on April 1 and was in force for ten days; now it is extended to avoid any risk that could trigger a fire.

The change from low to medium risk implies an increase in human and material resources available for fire fighting. Thus, the following are available 2,500 personnel that are prepared to intervene within the Infoca Plan.

The same applies to material resources. Thus, the Board has at its disposal eight air assets y 117 heavy vehiclesa device to which two other devices will be added in the future helicopters from the 15th and another six from May 1. "We want to make it difficult for the fire and prevention is key in the fight against forest fires. We are taking all the measures at our disposal to prevent them," explained Fernández-Pacheco.

From January 1 until today the Infoca device has intervened in 113 forest fires (22 fires and 91 near-fires (less than one hectare of forest area).

The number of hectares affected amounts to 165,94 (17.02 trees and 148.92 scrubland). To this figure must be added the recent fires of Cantoria, Jimena de la Frontera and Tarifa which total some 303 hectares, according to the measurement estimated in the first calculations.

This year the Infoca has intervened more times than the last ten, 113 times compared to the average of 94; however, a smaller area affected by fire is recorded, 166 hectares compared to the average of 587 hectares. In Spain as a whole, 46,255 hectares have already burned in the first three months of this year.