The flames spread over a kilometer and reached the edge of the road that connects Córdoba capital and Carlos Paz.
Cordova suffers a new forest fire which is out of control between the provincial capital and Carlos Paz. Such is the density of the smoke that the highway that connects both cities interrupted the transit between the bridge May Day to the bridge Skirt of Carmen. In the midst of a strong firefighting operation, Four officers had to be transferred to Córdoba Hospital with injuries.
Regarding their current condition, the provincial Minister of Health, Ricardo Pieckenstainer, stated in an interview with TN that “two of them are in critical condition, one of them in intensive care.” “For now, what we hope is that there will be no new injuries. We left a health post with a mobile intensive care unit at the toll booth to provide rapid assistance to any other injured persons,” he added.
More precisely, the fire is located between the highway and the town of La Calera and stretches for almost a kilometer. The flames reached the edge of the road and burned several advertising signs. It is the same area where some of the fires had occurred at the beginning of the week.
The fire focus was fueled by weather conditions favorable to its spread: strong gusts of north wind exceeding 60km/h, the temperature is high, above 25 degrees, and the relative humidity dropped below 20%.
“Now the number 1 enemy is the wind. We expect gusts all night. The fire started with a frontage of about 400 metres when the firefighters arrived. We still have no presumption about how it all started.“Schreiner said.
Cordoba declared a state of disaster
This morning, the provincial government declared the State of disaster after the fires in Calamuchita and El Durazno and Governor Martin Llaryora also announced that The Permanent Fund for Attention to Disaster Situations will be increased to $5 billion.
The fire in these regions had already consumed more than 12 thousand hectares and confirmed that a state of disaster had been declared in the departments of Calamuchita, Punilla, Colón and Santa María. A new outbreak has now been added to this catastrophe in La Calera.
The local leader explained that different areas of the Government “are Assessing damages to define actions and implement aid for victims“.
In the last few hours the province’s Climate Risk Management Secretariat indicated that The main fires were controlled and continue to guard the ashes.
“Our firefighters and special teams are the true example of sacrifice and dedication. Thanks to their bravery and professionalism, the community was able to avoid a major tragedy.“, he expressed on his social networks.
Source: Ambito
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