DECREE ON FOREST FIRES

DECREE ON FOREST FIRES

Due to the high risk of fires in Andalucia, the Mayor of Mijas Antonio Sanchez has announced that, according to the Environmental By-Laws, during the summer period 1st of June to the 15th of October it will be TOTALLY PROHIBITED to burn garden, agricultural and forest refuge.
BBQs will be prohibited in public and forest areas,  including recreational and camping areas, even if these are equipped for this activity.  Urbanizations, camping areas and installations or activities carried out near forest areas must have a SELF PROTECTION PLAN, which will have to be presented to the Mijas Town Hall.

Rules and Regulations

Neighbours will also have to take into account that it will be prohibited all year to:

Throw or leave abandoned matches or cigarettes or any burning object.

Nor throw litter,plastics, glass, garbage, flammable material or any residue that could provoke a fire.

Activities related to the launching of fireworks, hot air balloons or any other type of artefact that contain fire must ask for special authorisation to the Governmental Delegate of the Junta de Andalucia, who will also inform on the safety measures to be taken.

Neighbours must also be reminded that the area, when using soldering or weldering machines, electrical generators, explosion or electrical motors / equipment as well as electrical transformers, must have a fire break of a 5 meter diameter.

To protect the neighbours it is necessary that the populated centres, buildings, industrial installations and urbanizations have a fire barrier of 15meters wide free of residue, shrubbery and herbaceous vegetation, keeping down the density of bushes and trees in the area according to the Self Protection Plan.

Private Owners Reminder

Also remind private owners that are situated under low and medium tension electricity cables should remove all vegetation (tree branches, shrubbery, pastureland) in a radius of 2 meters from the cables to avoid fire.

The Environmental Department reminds citizens that this announcement has been made to reduce the activities that produce forest fires; fires that happen every year and affect
thousands of hectares of Andalucian forest land.

The Mayor of Mijas asks for the collaboration of all the residents of Mijas.