Monday, August 20, 2012

MALLORCA TODAY - Fire-starting on Mallorca "out of control"

There have been 18 separate woodland fires on Mallorca in the past week, leaving no one in any doubt that most if not all have been started intentionally and for the suggestion to be made that this pyromania is out of control. Fires over the past days have occurred in Capdepera, Betlem, Son Vida (on more than one occasion), and numerous other places. The environmental group GOB has called for the public prosecutor to become involved, suggesting there is something more sinister than just random fire-starting as some of the fires have broken out in more or less the same locations as fires last year. Regional government president, José Ramón Bauzá, has said that consideration will have to be given to changing and strengthening laws to try and combat what he acknowledges are not accidental fires.

See more: El Mundo

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