The presence of 2,000 people in mascletà more forces to move away aerial gunneries The contest takes to the 14 hours with an important cut of zone VIP in Stars and changes in security J. HERNANDEZ the decision of the City council to release space in the place of Stars so that a greater amount of public can see in forward edge mascletás, whose contest begins today with the firing that will carry out to the 14 hours the Focs pyrotechnics d' Artifici Europla, of Bélgida (Valencia), has forced the firemen to elaborate a new plan of security for the zone.
The Service of Prevention and Fire extinguishing has handled in the last weeks several studies on the approach of the public in agreement with the limits who establishes the municipal ordinance and the regulation of explosives, since this year will be 2,000 people more in forward edge after the important reduction of zone VIP, reserved for authorities, festeros representatives and guests, much more diminished east year with respect to which he was habitual, and the transfer to the other end of the place, in the confluence with Alfonso the Wise person, of the space for the sponsors. The head of the park, Bald Juan, explained that the zone has been redesigned where the aerial gunneries settle since the norm forces to place housings, mortars, volcanos, Chinese candles or boxes to a minimum safety distance of 70 meters of the public.
In this way the approach of people to the stroll of Grove has forced to modify the spaces where these fires were located and to move away them several meters with respect to the last years. Part of the material pyrotechnics will be distributed in the two roads of General Marvá, since year were made already the past, since the center of the stroll partially is closed by works, are numerous houses of these works and an infantile park. This location allows a greater concentration of people near Stars, and that can see and listen to better the spectacle pyrotechnics, according to it indicated Bald. As far as ground fires, among them masclets, earthquakes and groups of thunder, the public will be placed to a minimum of 30 meters. The security will be reinforced with dense fences of two meters of height with hollows more reduced to restrain the material pyrotechnics that could be strained, given to the caliber of the mass pyrotechnics that goes off in this contest, that oscillates between 130 and 132 kilos.
This year the public also will be able to bet itself in the avenue of the Station once the works of the street car have finalized that the past occupied it to year and that only left to a space between Tucuman and General O´Donnell. The fences will indeed be placed between Stars and the Tucuman street, and it will cover of suitable form an incline and an access to a parking to avoid accidents given the agglomeration that is expected. Within the rearrangement of all the zone, racós of mass media will happen to settle in the South part of the stroll of Grove. The firemen reviewed yesterday in the evening the assembly of protection and the fence one of Stars since last night same mascletà nocturnal of the contest of the City council went off in this place last. Today in the morning they will inspect again the installation after verifying that the Europla pyrotechnics fulfills the amounts of powder that marks the contest. The firemen will daily move to the place fourteen cash to control the security. The closing of Stars to prepare the contest of mascletás is possible by the cut of the center to the traffic to form the Bonfire perimeter, that will be realised to seven this morning. This restriction will stay during all the celebrations and it will rise to the 8 hours of day 25. The vehicles of emergencia, those of two wheels and the residents will only be able to accede to the circuit, with card.
The RENFE has reinforced the trains nocturnes to attend Bonfires with 20,000 extraordinary places in neighborhoods between Elche and Alicante, and with 12,500 the line between Sant Vicent Centre and Alicante during afternoon night morning and of the day 24, as well as the dawn of days 21 and 25.
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