US EditionCorrientes is also under fire: a dead teacher and thousands of hectares ravaged by fires
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As in Patagonia, the coastal province suffers the siege of igneous foci that multiplied this week. The director of a rural school died and at least 50 people had to be assisted.
By Defensores del Pastizal (*), Agencia Tierra Viva/ Abstracto Latinoamericano, February 10, 2025. In the province of the coast there are massive fires since 2020, with a record of more than a million hectares in 2022. This summer, the fire devoured more than 100 thousand hectares. Behind the statistics, there are [...] The entry Social Ecology. Fires in Corrientes: history of forest policies that fuel the fire was first published in Abstracto L…
Cindia Alejandra Mendoza died while trying to save her father’s house from the ferocious forest fires that have plagued Corrientes province for several days. The 30-year-old girl was director of the Rural School No. 919, located in the runaway Alem Cué, and for days she was helping dozens of neighbors to try to save their homes from the flames, which already burned at least 7,000 hectares. It was Monday afternoon that Mendoza crossed Zulema Fern…
Since the end of January, just as in El Bolsón, Corrientes has been under fire as a result of an intense drought. There are dozens of evacuees, a fatal victim and thousands of hectares destroyed. “I don’t have the precise number, but I estimate that we are close to 100,000 hectares burned since January 1 throughout the province,” the coordinator of the Emergency Operations Command and deputy director of Civil Defense of Corrientes, Bruno Lovinso…
In the midst of a historical drought and the heat wave, Brigadiers in the province are working to control the situation.
The veterinarian Carina Noelia Tomasella is the president of the Rural Society of Perugorria, a town located to the south of the province of Corrientes. There about 10 days ago, the fire gives no truce and the ruralist has had to leave out most of her responsibilities to keep working side by side with the brigades and the fire brigades that try to suffocate the fires. Almost with the precision of a chronicler, the Corrientes is able to tell what…
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