Although the town of Burgohondo (Ávila) has come out unscathed, people have been frightened. It is hard to see from the road that connects it with Navaluenga the place where the fire started, also because of the white smoke that forms a dense fog, but the truth is that near this road, the AV-902, reopened yesterday, there are green trees and yellow brush, but no black ashes.
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Next to that road is one of the rural houses of Iván Pérez, who together with his family runs a total of seven rural accommodations in Burgohondo and Navaluenga. “I had all the reservations full for last weekend, but people canceled, of course, because the fire started. The bad thing is that I also had it full from Monday to Friday and they have canceled that too. And for the weekend people are already calling me thinking about canceling”, he says resignedly.
This Tuesday he went to water, because the garden of the house must remain in good condition to receive guests. However, despite the garden in perfect condition and the pool with its spotless lawn, reservations are being canceled. “You have to tell how this really is. Up in the mountains everything has burned, and on the other side, where there are only pines, it will be much worse, but here in Burgohondo it is not. Everything is fine,” he explains while pointing to the place where the fire started, in the mountains.
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There is still smoke there, sometimes you can see “chimneys,” as he calls the logs that keep smoking when the wind blows. But the Alberche river acted as a wall and together with the holm oaks and oaks, less flammable than the pines, the flames were stopped. The lament of all the neighbors is that the area where the fire started has no trees, but low scrub, but misfortune wanted it to spread too fast.
