:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/OYWQLNTVMNFSTFQ4NA3CXHGYMM.jpg "Corrientes: A man tried to start a forest fire but was caught in the act 1")
Amid extreme drought and high temperatures, a man was caught as he embarked on a fire in a wooded area in the municipality of alverin the province of currents. According to official sources, it was an older man, identified by the surname of Lunque, who was caught minutes after the flames began to burn.
At first, the man was detained by rural workers, who saw and understood the dangerous activity the subject was carrying out. Then, after extinguishing the fire, the employees notified the police, who brought the suspect to justice, depending on the force.
Located about 450 kilometers from the capital of Corrientes, the place is near the intersection of provincial roads 36 and 40. In a context of extreme drought, in the province of Corrientes four outbreaks of fire were recorded in the last hours, in the cities of Concepcion, San Miguel, Palmar Grande and La Cruzas announced by the Emergency Operations Command (COE).
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The Concepción fire covers various inaccessible areas of the Iberá wetlands, with igneous activity for more than 50 days.
On the other hand, the province of Buenos Aires also suffered another fire concentrated in the Ernesto Tornquist Provincial Park. As officially reported, lightning struck between Ventana Hill and Bahía Blanca Hill. For this reason, the endowments of various volunteer fire stations in the southern region of Buenos Aires have continued with the contribution of fire hydrants and helicopters to fight the flames.
Following the fire, the authorities of the municipality of Tornquist, together with police officers, carried out a transit operation on the provincial road 76, which connects the towns of Tornquist with Villa Ventana, where the unified command is located fire trucks. and various road vehicles.
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Given this situation, only 10 vehicles were allowed to pass when they accumulated in a single lane, due to the presence of firefighters and pumpers, among other vehicles.
Regarding the start of the fire, the head of the Tornquist fire station, Martín Haag, one of the coordinators of the operation, said: “The firefighters of Tornquist, Sierra de la Ventana, Villa Ventana, Saavedra, Saldungaray, Monte Hermoso work. , Colonel Pringles, Colonel Suárez, Colonel Dorrego with the Central South Communications Brigade, which established the command on the spot. Machinery from the Municipality of Tornquist, from the Civil Protection of Buenos Aires, a Buenos Aires Police helicopter and National Fire Management Service (SNMF) hydrant planes with personnel from Parque Provincia are also operating.”
As part of the day’s tasks, four helicopters sent by the Buenos Aires Ministry of Security acted with mouth planes of the National Fire Management Plan with the support of fire trucks, tanks and engines road.
The latest information highlights that the fire continued to move slowly covering the base of Cerro Ventana, inside which a lower part was worked by fire trucks thanks to the firewalls. On the other hand, in the upper zone, the helicopters work.
For his part, the Secretary of Government and Security of the Municipality of Tornquist, Ezequiel Gabella, was optimistic about the fire: “Tomorrow a new reconnaissance flight will be carried out, those who know and those who know are optimistic about tomorrow regarding the fire that he would go to a place where he could work a little better. They are not pastures, they are trees, small pines, brooms, acacias, which covered the slopes of the mountains with greenery and one of the springs is on the slope of Cerro Ventana”.
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