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More than a million hectares have already burned in Chiquitanía, Bolivia

2019-09-02T17:40:23.294Z


This Sunday the president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, lamented the first fatality by the fire that is ravaging the region of Chiquitanía, in the northwest of the country, on the border with Brazil ...


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(CNN Spanish) - This Sunday the president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, lamented the first fatality by the fire that is ravaging the region of Chiquitanía, northwest of the country, on the border with Brazil.

The victim, a young man of about 25 years, originally from Sacaba, in the department of Cochabamba, was working to quell one of the sources of fire and was found with burns to the body, according to the Bolivarian president himself. According to the first reports released by the local press, the young man would have fallen by a canyon and suffered a blow to the head.

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In his Twitter account @evoespueblo the president wrote:

“I am very sorry to report the death of the young Jorge Hinojoza Vega who helped in the tasks of extinguishing fire in Sacaba, #Cochabamba. It is the first human loss and it happened in suspicious circumstances. Our condolences and solidarity to his family. #UnidadEnLaAdversidad ”

We express our deep regret for the death of the NCO brother Lucio Mamani, a Bolivian police servant, who lost his life in the line of duty by helping to put out a fire in Coroico. All our solidarity and condolences to his family

- Evo Morales Ayma (@evoespueblo) September 2, 2019

They send the fires

Forest fires that have ravaged more than 1,100,000 hectares in Bolivia are gradually being reduced. According to the commander of the Bolivian armed forces, Williams Kalimán, the fires in that area of ​​the department of Santa Cruz had decreased from 662 to 383 on August 31.

The water discharged in the affected area already exceeds 4,250,000 liters and much of this water has been discharged by the Supertanker Boeing 747 tanker, contracted by the government of Bolivia and with a capacity of 150,000 liters of water.

According to the National Space Research Institute, the INPE of Brazil, the country suffered 13,396 fires in August, an increase of 422% over the previous month.

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Commander Kaliman informed the Bolivian Information Agency - ABI - that land operations total 356 and that the strongest focus is on Santa Teresita and Lajas where the supertanker is operating.

The state is not overwhelmed

In statements collected by ABI, the Minister of Communication of Bolivia, Manuel Canelas, said Sunday that the Bolivian state "is not overwhelmed" in economic or technical resources that force it to declare a national disaster due to fires. It is a request made by municipal authorities, departments and even prominent politicians in the face of the seriousness of the situation.

But Canelas says that the refusal of his government is not because of pride or whim but because for now the State can respond to the situation.

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Fire alerts

Bolivia along with other 7 countries shelter the Amazon rainforest. It is estimated that almost 20% of the oxygen produced on earth comes from the Amazonian forests. On July 22, an organization that monitors fires in forests around the world, Global Forest Watch Fires, recorded some 837,000 forest fire alerts, of which Brazil ranked fourth with 321,000 and Bolivia eighth with 104,000

Fire in Bolivia

Source: cnnespanol

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