Ecological Crisis | Storm Boris leaves 24 dead in Europe - video Dailymotion

*Bolivian government to receive equipment to combat forest fires. *Colombian authorities report over 240 wildfires in September 2024. teleSUR

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00:00In Central Europe, Storm Boris leaves at least 24 people dead and around 4,000 displaced

00:06due to flooding.

00:08Meteorological authorities reported that 250mm of rain fell in the last 24 hours, affecting

00:14countries such as Romania, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Italy.

00:19Meanwhile, local authorities have enabled schools and sports centres as shelters for

00:24those most affected and are urging some of them to stay on the upper floors of their

00:28homes or abandon them due to the flooding.

00:32In the meantime, authorities are distributing humanitarian aid and emergency services while

00:36working on the cleaning and recovery of damaged areas.

00:46Meanwhile in Hungary, authorities closed roads, train stations and suspended ferry service

00:52due to flooding after Storm Boris.

00:55Authorities report that in the Danube region, houses and restaurants close to rivers were

01:01covered with water.

01:02They also report that more than 6,000 professionals were mobilised to fill sandbags to fortify

01:08the Polish city of Worklo.

01:17The government of Bolivia announced that it will receive equipment to combat the forest

01:21fires that have ravaged a part of the country in recent weeks and have devastated more than

01:26four million hectares.

01:27The president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, informed that on September 21st, a tanker plane and

01:33an electro-tanker 481 will arrive with a capacity for multiple water discharges of 11,300 litres.

01:41The Bolivian president explained that a helicopter with a capacity of 1,000 water litres will

01:46also arrive.

01:48In this sense, the head of state, Luis Arce, stated that the aircraft will implement the

01:52Brechas de la Esperanza plan to fight fires by land and the Guardian aerial mitigation

01:58plan to attack the fire by air.

02:06In Colombia on Friday, the National Unity of Risk Management of Disasters has reported

02:11249 wildfires in September, with 10 of them still actively raging.

02:16In this sense, the most affected region is Cundinamarca, in the centre of the country,

02:21as it has faced 66 of the wildfires, while Huila and Tolima have notified 44-ish.

02:28In this context, the agency proposed pursuing a technical management strategy to put out

02:33the wildfires, which have already destroyed 23,000 hectares of the domestic forests.

02:39In addition, the National Directorate of the Firefighters stated that more than $7 million

02:45have been allocated to purchase the cutting-edge equipment to better tackle these incidents.

02:51Regarding the fires in Tolima, the Director of the Regional Autonomous Corporation provided

02:56an update.

02:57And of course a recommendation to the whole community of Tolima, Western Colombia, since

03:07a large part of the fires are caused by human actions, so we need to avoid them, remember

03:11that controlled burnings are absolutely forbidden at this moment.

03:17These fires in Tolima, Western Colombia are consuming a number of hectares, some of which

03:21are of strategic and eco-systemic importance and affect our wildlife, and we have asked

03:26the Minister of the Environment to help us.