The national director of Firefighters, Ricardo Riaño, told The Observer that the fire in the bull hilllocated to the north of the Piriápolis resort, is in “liquidation stage” and affirmed that its extinction is a matter of hours
“Tomorrow afternoon we will consider it extinct”Riaño announced, and even maintained that it is possible that this statement “go ahead” if “some promising rain” arrives in the next few hours.
The hierarch indicated that the cooling tasks continue in the place in “some little dots” that stay warm. For this they work three brigades and a technical team from Montevideo by firefighters, along with six machinery and four tanker trucks of the Municipality of Maldonado, informed The Observer the coordinator of the Maldonado Emergency Committee (Cecoed), Mauricio Souza.
According to the coordinator, the fire is “circumscribed” thanks to firewalls generated with the machinery used. In total, they were affected 310 hectares.
did not occur property damage for the incident, only the “vegetation” present was affected on the hill. This Thursday the authorities managed to save a vineyard located on the hillsidethanks to the fact that six machines “they widened the firewall” from that area so that the fire that came down from the affected area would not reach that area, Souza said.
from 4:00 p.m. resorts and campsites were enabled who had been evicted on Wednesday morning, when the fire started, to re-accommodate their guestsadded the coordinator.
Canelones: 310 hectares affected, a house and a sawmill destroyed
The fires that first affected the spas of La Floresta and Las Vegasand then to Forest Station, is it so under fire controlindicated the force in its latest report on the situation at 7:00 p.m.
the first fire affected 40 hectares between the two affected localities. At the moment firefighters carry out “cool down tasks” in the burned areareported firefighters. A house was destroyed by the flames.
On the other hand, the fire at Estación Floresta affected 270 hectares of land, which they burned within five hours, as reported by the deputy director of the Fire Department, Richard Barboza, in an interview with Telemundo (Channel 12).
The only material damage that was reported from this event was that suffered by the Lidenor company sawmillwith 90% of its structure damaged by the incident.
In the place they work 30 firefighters, distributed in six agency vehicles, together with 25 military officialsstressed the force.
