BIG UP !!!! the bomberos

There has just now been a land fire just over the way from us . The Land crew were there within minutes, it took the Ayutamiento's helicopter less than 10 minutes to get here , do a circuit of the fire and drop 12 guys off . Then it headed to Lake Negratin to fill its bucket . There , fill and back less than 3 minutes per trip . Thirty nine minutes approx a dozen trips and it was out and we are talking no small fire here . There were a few houses in it's path so obviously they took priority.

I was extremely impressed with the team work .

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We had a fire about 500m from us last year and they did exactly the same. Dropped off a load of guys who cut the scrub back to create "breaks", while the chopper filled up from someone's depositor. Very efficient stuff.

Nice work with the camera.

Wow, that looks awful. That´s my biggest fear, fire.

if anybody needs a fire fighter get in touch with fire man phil,los olivos,first class

Lyndyloo wrote:Wow, that looks awful. That´s my biggest fear, fire.

Me too Lyndyloo - but having seen how well they work I found it REALLY !! reassuring .

If anyone needs a fire starting, I am a specialist with many years experience of burning all things combustible and non combustible. No, really.

Well done the bomberos!
Great pictures!

Brill pic, scarey tho...................was at the lake last year and watched them practising / trainning, awesome !!!!! Thankgod we have a lake

If you follow the road out past Vente Macina near Orce, there is an airstrip and what looks like water deposit tanks. I believe that its for the bombero's or maybe Ryanair?

daisymay wrote:if anybody needs a fire fighter get in touch with fire man phil,los olivos,first class

VERY FUNNY Daisy May!!!

I wish I had the idea of taking pics at the time.
I think we must have drawn the bombero short straw as it were on that occasion.
We rang the emergency services and it took at least 25 minutes before Pugh, Pugh & Barney McGrew arrived.
The poplar tree plantation below us was alight and the fire tender that arrived was tiny. It's water ran out within a couple of minutes and they drove off to fill up which took them twenty minutes, by which time there were 60ft flames lapping our property boundary. Not good for the blood pressure.
All this time Phil was trying to dampen the ground to stop it coming our way with a hose & very poor water supply from the house. Nearly the whole village came with brooms and buckets and eventually it was controlled.
The best part off this event was when several of the older women, that had been observing everything from our roof, invited themselves into our cave and oo'd & aah'd at the work we had done inside. The fact that Phil was in the shower didn't deter them!
All good fun! The joys of living in rural Spain eh?

Nice to hear from you Daisymay.

Those lovely Bomberos are also great at using the Bombas!!!

During the megga rain here last August - my courtyard began flooding. I was taking photos, when it occurred to me that it wasn't stopping and the water was getting closer and closer to my cave.

I rang 112 - and after a call from the Guadia in Granada, asking where exactly I lived - the Guadia and Bomberos arrived, less than 15 mins after I made the 112 call.

They got their main pump hooked up, but the water was still gushing into the courtyard, so they decided to use their floating pump aswell, which was in a box on the roof of their vehicle.

It took nearly 4 hours of pumping and shifting earth, rocks and gravel to block the waters path, but they persevered. Two fab young guys, who I am so grateful to.

As with Rosies experience, the villagers just couldn't resist walking up here to see what was going on!

I would like to say a BIG THANK YOU to Ian Sharp who organised his friend Gordon to come along with a digger and do some amazing ground works, which stopped the same thing happening just weeks later!

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