2. ANALYSIS OF THE DYNAMIC, ENERGETIC FIRE BEHAVIOUR.

  In order to deal with the explosive phenomenon which provoked the surprising fire in the township of Alájar on 30th June 1999, it is necessary to revise the state of every factor that rules the physical and chemical process in the combustion associated with fire spread. This revision is due to the request derived from the participation of the responsible agents for the spread in the phenomenon of combustion; that is, the meteorology state, the higher or lower combustibility of the vegetation associations and the direct or indirect influence of the topographic shaping of the zone. In other words, every kind of behaviour, either expected or not, is the consequence of the individual contribution of the three agents- previously mentioned- to the dynamic and energetic fire spread. In this sense, the content of this analysis has been structured according to the following index:

   2.1. DEFINITION OF METEOROLOGY STATE.
   2.2. CHARACTERISATION OF THE PRESENT FOREST FUELS.
   2.3. TOPOGRAPHIC ASPECT.
   2.4. DESCRIPTION OF FIRE BEHAVIOUR.