2024-01-28 21:01:00
The devastating fire in Los Alerces National Parkin the province of Chubut, has already devastated almost 600 hectares since its beginning last Thursday night. This weekend, as a result of the high temperatures, the fire grew in magnitude, and Governor Ignacio Torres targeted the members of the Mapuche Ancestral Resistance (RAM).
Despite the authorities’ attempts to control the flames, these they don’t give truce and official sources assured that the situation is “out of control”
The fire started as consequence of two igneous sources that were close, as reported by the National Secretariat of the Environment. For its part, the administration of Los Alerces National Park indicated on Saturday night that The fire is still active and has affected about 579 hectares.
“The fire covers two jurisdictions (National Parks and Chubut Province). Operation with road machinery was added to the work planned this morning,” the statement details.
Likewise, they advanced that for this Sunday the Unified Command “it will assign 87 combatants to the line, 2 hydrant planes, 2 helicopters with buckets, and 1 observation plane”as well as “more personnel” will be required from the National Fire Management Service to reinforce the work and combat the flames.
Fire out of control and record temperatures in Patagonia
“The fire is out of control”he had declared on Saturday Mario Cárdenas, head of the Department of Fire, Communications and Emergencies (ICE) of the park, declared a UNESCO world heritage site in 2017.
Heat wave: the SMN warned of high temperatures in the City of Buenos Aires and Conurbano
The flames, located in the area of Sentinel Creek At the height of Rosales Bay on Lake Futalaufquen, they consumed the native forest and burned species such as ñire, laura, cohiue cane, and lenga. Furthermore, the difficult weather conditions, with strong gusts of wind and high temperatures, They further complicated the extinction tasks.
In fact, on Saturday the National Meteorological Service (SMN) reported record temperatures of more than 40ºC these days in Argentine Patagonia. The Institution even warned that The heat will remain in the region during next week and will extend to the north, in the central and most populated provinces of Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Córdoba and Entre Ríos, with temperatures that can climb up to 38°C.
Smoke complicates the fight against the fire in Los Alerces National Park
He latest report this Sunday at noon he pointed out that the presence of smoke significantly reduced visibility, hindering air operations, but the operation continues by land. The arrival of 31 additional brigade members and 60 more combatants were requested from the SNMF.
Overnight, The fire advanced towards La Torta hillbut thanks to the intervention of the Esquel and Trevelin volunteer firefighters, No damage to homes was reported.
They assure that “politics have no interest in climate change.”
A reconnaissance flight is scheduled to assess the extent of the damage and analyze the behavior of the fire.
Currently, the National Parks, the Provincial Fire Management Service of Chubut, the SNMF, Volunteer Firefighters, Gendarmerie, Prefecture and Civil Defense Esquel Delegation are working jointly in the operations, equipped with a fire engine, two helicopters, fifteen trucks, one tanker, two road machinery, two hydrant planes, a weather station, four drones, and 16 firefighters along with 26 SMNF brigade members.
What the governor of Chubut said about the forest fire
“The most worrying thing of all is that there are indications that the fire was intentional“, he claimed Ignacio Torreswho will arrive this Sunday in the city of Esquel to coordinate the operation. And he added: “Once the fire is controlled, we are going to start with research very strong for those who have been doing this for many years in Chubut. They do it to take land”.
The governor gave as an example that at this time “There is a shot in the Los Alerces National Park” and assured that “that park has to be evicted sooner”.
“We are going to go deep with the tools we have in the Justice to first evict the criminals who are currently occupying our Los Alerces National Park and also to find who started this fire,” he stated.
The fire in Parque Los Alerces is “out of control”: they suspect two intentional and close sources
When referring to the occupation of Los Alerces, the governor clarified: “I want to separate what the original communities arethat we are working very well and in fact we had a meeting recently to create a council that will allow us to finish the survey that needs to be done in the province; And what RAM is, they are basically blackmail”.
And he added: “They are criminals who have a real estate business and they do these things. So the problem is not the native peoples but these criminals who take land under false flags. They do it in Neuquén, they do it in Río Negro, they do it in Chubut and I think It’s time to put a definitive stop to it”.
“Although it is the territory of the National Park, we are working together with the national government, making available to all the departments of the Provincial Government of Roads, with the machinery for the firebreaks and the provincial brigade members. Even private companies also from the province made machinery available to control the fire as soon as possible,” said Torres, who confirmed that today at 6 p.m. he will give a press conference.
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