Incendios en Córdoba: bomberos luchan contra nuevos focos en La Calera
La provincia de Córdoba sigue enfrentando una ardua batalla contra los incendios. Ayer, las imágenes eran catastróficas con la autopista Córdoba-Carlos Paz cerrada por completo. Hoy, aunque el viento ha disminuido, se espera que las ráfagas superen los 70 km/h. Los bomberos trabajan intensamente en la zona de La Calera para controlar un nuevo foco en un predio militar. La sequía y las altas temperaturas complican la situación, mientras columnas de humo negro dificultan la respiración y visibilidad en el área afectada.
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00:00And yesterday was a day, I don't say to forget, but it was known that it was going to be very, very contrary to the work that the firefighters are doing, because the meteorological aspect did not help.
00:10Belén, what news do we have this morning? Good morning.
00:16Eduardo, good morning. The fight against the flames continues here in the province of Córdoba.
00:21Although we are now in the Calera area, Eduardo, yesterday the images were really catastrophic.
00:27All this area was on fire and also the Córdoba-Carlos Paz highway, which had a total cut.
00:32At this moment, a small focus, we could say, compared to what it was yesterday.
00:39You will see how suddenly this little focus that you are looking at now in the images is revived precisely with the change of the wind.
00:47At this moment it is a little calmer, Eduardo. Yesterday the blasts were from 60 to 70 kilometers per hour.
00:54Today it is even expected that the gust of wind will precisely exceed 70 kilometers.
00:59We reiterate, at this moment everything is much calmer.
01:04Firefighters are arriving at this focus, which is in the military building, in the area of the Calera, working, of course, hard at different points.
01:13And in this case, trying to finish with this focus that is here in the area of the Calera.
01:17Now we are going to try to walk a little more so that you can see the magnitude it has.
01:22The focus that is much further back than what we were seeing in the images.
01:25We are running a little because the firefighters are also arriving.
01:29And back there you can see the smoke, Eduardo, the totally black smoke, right?
01:34Because everything is burning. Dry grass.
01:37We are in a time of total drought in the province of Córdoba.
01:41Let's see, we tell the cameraman a little to the side, so he crosses the fire truck that comes to work here in the area.
01:50And all the dry grass that we are showing you now in the images, Eduardo, how it is burning here in the area.
01:57It has not rained in the province of Córdoba for a long time, Eduardo, and high temperatures are expected again and low humidity.
02:05Humidity below 20% in some cases generates this drought and these elements that are meteorological,
02:13but that contribute to making it more difficult to counteract the advance of the flames.
02:18Flames and smoke columns of more than 10 meters high, 25 meters in some cases.
02:23What is breathed in the environment? Tell us what you perceive at this time.
02:29Well, of course, a lot of smoke, it is even difficult to breathe, also the vision.
02:34Although we reiterate, Eduardo, at this time it is a little calmer compared to yesterday.
02:40However, they tell us that a focus is being initiated in the area of the volcano with a front of 1500 meters.
02:47And this is the image that we have at this time, a few minutes away from the city of La Calera.
02:53I don't know if you can see in the background images the houses that are just about 5 kilometers
03:00from the flames that are beginning to revive at this time in this area of the pastizales.
03:06Firefighters are arriving, well, people who also live here near the city,
03:12which is happening precisely at this moment, and firefighters are arriving.
03:17Trucks that arrive precisely to help, to end precisely with this focus that is here in the area.
03:23Eduardo is reviving because suddenly the wind begins to blow a little stronger,
03:29but we could say that this area could be controlled in a matter of minutes.
03:34All this burned yesterday, you will see in the images, totally black.
03:38This was pastizal, high pastizal, which at this time is totally burned,
03:44and a focus that is still active in the area of La Calera.
03:47A body-to-body work of the firefighters there, in the last focus that is being recorded
03:52with the images live for América Noticias.
03:55There were preventive road cuts too, right?
04:00Yesterday, a total cut, Eduardo.
04:02Past noon, the area on the Cordoba-Carlos Paz highway,
04:06an important highway in the province of Córdoba, of great circulation,
04:10which yesterday was totally cut off because the fire reached the area,
04:14and not only to the highway, but also even a few meters from the toll and a service station
04:20that was there on the highway.
04:23Well, how many firefighters have arrived in these last minutes, right?
04:26And the teams are being renewed, knowing that the fight takes place during the 24 hours.
04:31Are the hydrant aircraft still working?
04:36Look, the hydrant aircraft are currently working in other places, Eduardo,
04:40because there is also a fire focus in Villa del Dique, of lesser magnitude.
04:45I say, they could work all morning.
04:47Yesterday, more than three hydrant aircraft, helicopters and more than 200 firefighters
04:52At this moment, we have at least 10 trucks in this area
04:56that are working in this focus on the highway,
04:59but we reiterate, they are also still working in different blocks
05:03in other parts of the province of Córdoba.
05:05Belén, do you know anything about the person arrested?
05:08We mentioned a couple of days ago that it is a 71-year-old man, a retiree.
05:14The fire would have started in one of the three houses that have a building.
05:17The man would declare today, as we understand, right?
05:22Of course, Eduardo, that is in the focus of El Durazno, in the Calamuchita Valley,
05:27where the weekend began.
05:34And that man has already been charged, precisely, 70 years old, retired.
05:38The fire would have started precisely in the area of his house, near his house.
05:44But this is another point, Eduardo.
05:47A long time ago, although from May to December we always talked
05:50about the extreme risk of forest fires in the province of Córdoba,
05:53a long time ago we did not see so many focuses in a row, right?
05:57This week we were talking about focuses in different points
06:00and we reiterate the forecast that does not help precisely.
06:04Dry grass, low humidity and high temperature,
06:07that at least until Tuesday we have the forecast
06:10that could reach up to 33, 34 degrees.
06:14There the firefighters try, well, to stop the advance of the fire,
06:19which there in small focus is being expressed.
06:22We see it clearly, you are a few meters away,
06:24the difficulty to breathe must be very high, right?
06:29Totally, Eduardo.
06:30Look, we're going to try to get a little closer
06:32so that you can see the image up close.
06:35Let's say it in quotes.
06:36It is a small fire that suddenly blows a little more the wind and begins to burn.
06:42And I reiterate that at this moment the wind is calm,
06:45inside everything, listen to the noise,
06:47I don't know if you can hear how everything starts to burn, right?
06:51And it moves as the wind blows a little more.
06:54But imagine this, with a bigger burst than we have at the moment,
06:59the flame, of course, rises and begins to be much higher.
07:03As it has happened in recent days, Eduardo,
07:06we were talking about flames up to 25 meters.
07:08Imagine this situation with a flame of 25 meters
07:11and all the firefighters also working yesterday in Duapete.
07:14You said yesterday was a black day in terms of the wind that was there,
07:18a gust of up to 60 kilometers per hour.
07:20Fortunately today that wind speed has given way.
07:27So far, Eduardo.
07:28Although yesterday the gust of wind reached 70 kilometers,
07:32now it is calm.
07:34Now, after noon, the temperature will start to rise little by little.
07:39The gust of wind could blow a little more.
07:41Let's hope not.
07:42But if that happens, of course,
07:44that the active focus, or rather, even the ash guard
07:49that is being given at different points,
07:51could reactivate and complicate the situation much more.
07:55We are going to review day by day what can happen today,
07:58during the weekend, Mimi, in terms of wind.
08:01Because Belén raised that on Tuesday
08:04a break could occur in the meteorological aspect.
08:07Is there a possibility of rain?
08:09Look, Eduardo.
08:10For now, this forecast of clear skies is maintained,
08:15at least in the next four days.
08:17Maximum increase temperatures
08:19that can exceed 34 degrees Celsius in the next few days.
08:24And in addition to this,
08:25the winds that will be blowing from the northern component,
08:28from the northern sector,
08:30bringing warm air from the north of the country
08:33to the province of Cordoba.
08:35None of these factors will contribute,
08:37at least in the short term,
08:39to this situation being reversed.
08:41However, there is a slight improvement
08:45from next Wednesday, we could say,
08:49where there would be a decrease in terms of temperature.
08:52There is still no firm forecast in terms of rain,
08:56so this outlook, for now, is not the best.
09:00Unfortunately, as we had said here a few days ago,
09:04according to the National Fire Management Plan,
09:06the province of Cordoba is at the top,
09:09in the maximum of adverse conditions,
09:13precisely for the start of the season.
09:16With all the media, we just saw a helicopter pass by, Belén.
09:21I was going to comment on that, precisely.
09:22They have already begun to fly over here in the area.
09:25At this moment, a helicopter is working
09:27here in the area of La Calera.
09:28In other places, we also reiterate,
09:30hydrant aircraft are also working,
09:32trying to help with the work of the firefighters
09:36who are in different places.
09:37Here, at least, we have 10 fire trucks working.
09:40This focus that is behind me,
09:42that you are seeing,
09:43this whole area is totally burned.
09:46Eduardo, we reiterate,
09:47yesterday the fire was impressive,
09:49with a great height.
09:51Where we are standing at the moment,
09:53it is all black.
09:54There is a lot of ash, a lot of smoke.
09:57Ash guard.
09:58And also, of course, these small flares
10:00that gradually reactivate.
10:02As soon as the wind begins to blow a little stronger,
10:06the flame rises.
10:07And this that you are seeing in the image
10:09begins to rise much more, right?
10:11As you just saw,
10:12the flame begins to be much higher
10:14in a matter of seconds, nothing more.
10:16A couple of meters away are the firefighters
10:18working to fight the fire.
10:20As it is so vital, and we observe it in images,
10:23the work of hydrant aircraft
10:25and also the helicopter,
10:26but it ends up being that low water discharge
10:29for what causes this type of fire, Belén.
10:35Of course, look,
10:36we have this focus here, Eduardo,
10:38but if we walk a little more,
10:40we already see how it is reviving a few meters.
10:43It is also working there, of course,
10:45the firefighters are working.
10:46But look at the distance,
10:48how the smoke looks
10:50and how the flame looks a little higher in this area.
10:52It goes down where we are,
10:54but approximately about 20, 30 meters,
10:57we have again another focus that is being reactivated.
11:01We are seeing the black smoke,
11:03how it begins to be much stronger,
11:05how the fire truck is getting in,
11:07also helping the other colleagues
11:10who are working.
11:11There are signs that they are circulating,
11:14that they are parking the truck,
11:15that is, they cross the field,
11:16that they are getting in,
11:17because, exactly, look at this,
11:19the grass, Eduardo, is totally dry.
11:22This burns in a matter of seconds, nothing more.
11:25It is pure combustion.
11:27Look at what this is,
11:28the drought that is here in this area
11:30and how the truck is entering.
11:32In the way it can, of course,
11:34a lot of flora, a lot of fauna in this area
11:37and trying to combat the different hot spots
11:40that are remaining in different areas.
11:42In this case, in the town of La Calera.
11:46Well, there we stayed with that image
11:48and the connection is permanent,
11:50the contact is open.
11:52Belén, any news that arises from there,
11:54it is impressive to see the work of the firefighters.
11:5724 hours, in this case, face to face with the fire,
12:00hand to hand with the flames.
12:02We'll be right back, Belén.
12:11The information is from the last moment
12:13because a stop is in effect.