Noel Kempff Mercado National Park for a month and a half and, despite the effortsthe fire has not yet been controlled.
The Deputy Minister of Civil Defense, Juan Carlos Calvimontes, denounced that, repeatedly, the flames have been suffocated, but then appears in other points, which suggests that they are caused in a malicious way. Similar situation occurs in the Tunari National Park, which has forced to reinforce the land rake.
“For the fifth time we are entering Noel Kempff Mercado Park to be able to turn off the fires. We control, suffocate, and new spotlights appear. This makes us think that there are people who are caught Fire maliciously, ”the authority denounced.
After an overfruit, the SERNAP reported that there is a dense smoke curtain between three and four kilometers, in addition to crawling fire in the northern part of the Caparuch plateau. However, it also ensures that rains were recorded in the area, which favors suffocation tasks.
In the iron, brigades supported by a Bambi Bucket that performs water discharges from the air, while in the eternal father sector the mitigation tasks by land continue.
In parallel, the early forest fire alert system (SATIF) of the Government reported seven active fires on Thursday and 247 Heat spotlights in Santa Cruz. To date, the affected surface reaches 127,267 hectares.
The coordinator of the Departmental Emergency Operations Committee (COED), Dionisio Castro, explained that the fires are in San Ignacio de Velasco (1), San José de Chiquitos (2), Concepción (1), El Carmen Rivero Tórrez (1), Ascension of Guarayos (1) and Buena Vista (1).
Castro informed that so far 4.8 tons of help have been delivered to different municipalities where firefighters are in combat.
According to Castro, San Ignacio de Velasco maintains the disaster declaration, being the only municipality that presented the documentation in accordance with Law 602 of Risk Management. For this reason, humanitarian aid for firefighters who perform control and mitigation work at Noel Kempff Mercado Park was delivered.
The distribution of teams donated by the American embassy to more than 15 volunteer groups and communal brigades has also been made.
Patrol in Cochabamba
On the other hand, the Deputy Minister of Civil Defense reported Thursday that land patrols will be intensified in critical areas of the department of Cochabamba, especially in the Tunari National Park, where forest fires are repeatedly registered.
“Military firefighters and troops are going to be mobilized to carry out patrols in Cochabamba, in critical places, but specifically in Tunari Park, taking into account that it was criminally attacked four times,” said the authority, referring to the fires recorded on September 21.
He also announced the delivery of tools and equipment to the response units, in order to strengthen the immediate reaction capacity to possible emergencies.
Regarding criminal proceedings, he said that, in Cochabamba, a person was sent to jail with preventive detention; While in Santa Cruz, three years were issued to three offenders, accused of provoking fires in the municipality of Ascension of Guarayos.
