The fires in Chubut are still active.
The authorities hope that the wind does not change, something that is very worrying because doing so could stimulate the fire even more.
The flames devastated
7,597 hectares of the Alerces National Park in two weeks
.
To combat the fire, the local government added more brigade members to the front of the incident.
The authorities said that with intense gusts of 70 or 80 kilometers there is a kind of contrast of winds like whirlpools, and the planes cannot work in that situation because they are at altitude, they have to descend and in the case of the helicopter they load in the heli bucket. and then they shoot, an action that
cannot be carried out with gusts of wind.
The operation
included 45 brigade members from the Province of Santa Fe,
who will be transferred in a Hercules C-130 managed by a command formed at the request of the Ministry of the Interior.
There are already 450 people, including support teams and line fighters, working in the different areas of this forest fire, to which must be added the important contribution of aerial means, among which helicopters with buckets, hydrant planes and a observer plane.
The fires remain active in the Los Alerces National Park.
Field deployment also includes the use of a wide variety of resources, including, for example, some 75 trucks, five fire engines, tankers, bulldozers, motor graders, carts, quadricycles, backhoes, drones, buses, boats and trucks.
Regarding this type of tasks, the secretary of citizen liaison in charge of the logistics of resources and help on the ground, Laura Mirantes, explained: "The light planes are very light structures that, having to do the loading when they leave, cannot move with that possibility either." Therefore, when there are high gusts, that work cannot be done."
The fires that affect the Los Alerces National Park.
In any case, he clarified that "for now, according to the meteorological projection, today the weather would accompany the development of the aerial tasks, as well as that of the human resources that work on the line of fire," Mirantes said, adding that
the intense winds "could arrive from the afternoon."
Meanwhile, he also described that "significant temperatures are expected, so it is possible that the sources that were calmer will be activated a little more as a result of the rain that occurred in the national park, with a fall of nine millimeters," he concluded. .
Regarding
the tourist services enabled, they operate normally
and motorists are recommended to drive with extreme caution on the section of Provincial Route 71 that crosses the National Park;
given the large circulation of vehicles affected by the operation
S.C.