The regional operation, which combines surveillance, rapid intervention, technical coordination, and ground and air resources, includes 2,313 personnel in Valencia, 977 in Alicante, and 973 in Castellón. Additionally, over a hundred technicians are assigned to the entire Valencian Community. The President of the Generalitat, Juanfran Pérez Llorca, highlighted this as a record investment.
The total investment allocated to forest fire prevention and extinction amounts to 298.47 million euros. Of this sum, 173 million are designated for prevention and recovery of forest infrastructure, while 125.47 million are reserved for extinction. Pérez Llorca described the deployment as "a record investment in personnel and equipment".
The operation integrates various forces and bodies, such as Generalitat forest firefighters, provincial consortia, municipal firefighters, forest brigades, volunteer firefighters, Generalitat Police, environmental agents, preventive surveillance units, and in-house forest technicians and those from the public company Vaersa. The president asserted that the Valencian Community is one of the regions that invests most in preventive surveillance and extinction.
The summer deployment includes 20 own aerial resources (eight helicopters, one for surveillance, two medicalized, and nine planes), supplemented by three helicopters from the Alicante and Valencia consortia and three planes from MITECO. On the ground, 56 forest firefighter units are activated, 45 of which are equipped with fire extinction pump trucks, along with a drone unit.
The plan is completed with 132 mobile preventive surveillance units, 65 active forest observatories (ten with permanent 24-hour service), three provincial prevention centers, 17 zone forest coordinator teams, one technical prevention unit, and 17 pump trucks. Real-time coordination is managed by the Generalitat's Emergency Coordination Center.
The head of the Consell called for extreme caution, reminding that nine out of ten forest fires have human origins. He urged compliance with the ban on making fires in forest areas and immediate notification to 1·1·2 upon spotting any smoke column, emphasizing that "the best way to extinguish a fire is for it not to start".
