Baldomar · Artesa de Segre · Catalonia · Spain · June 2022
Bombers records Baldomar as a major fire by the afternoon of 15 June. The 2022 civil protection review reports about 2,700 hectares and 54 people evacuated from the Cal Petit holiday centre at La Clua. Those incident-specific impacts occurred during a wider episode in which several fires were competing for resources across Catalonia.
How the decision changed
| Stage | Constraint | Recorded response |
|---|---|---|
| Afternoon of 15 June | Spread along the Baldomar–La Clua axis | The report describes work on the head and right flank to prevent further opening there. |
| Storm and opening | The left flank spread towards Alòs de Balaguer and entered the Sant Mamet area. | The strategy then focused on confining the fire within Sant Mamet and watching for reopening on the other flank. |
| 15–16 June regional episode | Other fires, including lightning ignitions in Solsonès, created simultaneous demands. | The civil protection review records INFOCAT moving from alert to emergency level 1, then to level 2 early on 16 June. |
The two documents give different views of the same period. The Bombers analysis shows why the flank priorities changed. The civil protection review documents mobilisation and protective actions, including a request for sheltering in place at Alòs de Balaguer. Keeping those records separate identifies which decisions applied to Baldomar and which applied to the wider group of incidents. Bombers 2022 seasonal analysis, Baldomar decision-making · Generalitat 2022 campaign and civil protection review
Using the case in a multi-incident archive
Baldomar, La Clua and Sant Mamet identify parts of this same operational record. The simultaneous Solsonès lightning complex and the Corbera d’Ebre fire are separate incidents discussed in the regional review. The region-level escalation provides context for all of them and has its own chronology. The reported 2,700 hectares belong to Baldomar.
Evidence limits
The strategy account gives retrospective scenarios and tactical priorities. A comparison of resource allocation or of alternative containment outcomes would require unit-level logs and a time-stamped reconstruction of the conditions at each incident.