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Wildfires continue to rage in southern Argentina  - Argentina Reports

Buenos Aires, Argentina — Wildfires continue to rage in southern Argentina, burning tens of thousands of hectares of forest in the Patagonia and Chubut provinces.  According to the governor of Chubut,  Ignacio Torres, over 400 firefighters, healthcare workers and security forces are in the area to support fire suppression efforts, which were hampered over the weekend due to inclement weather.  The first large fires started on January 5 in the Ch…

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The provincial leaders warned that almost 230,000 hectares had already been burned in the region.In Chubut, in addition, a judicial investigation is underway for possible negligence.

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"Together with the governors of Patagonia, we ask the Congress of the Nation for the urgent National Declaration of Ignea Emergency, promoted by our legislators," announced the governor of Chubut, Nacho Torres, spreading on social networks an excerpt from a joint videoconference with leaders and representatives of the provinces of Río Negro, La Pampa, Neuquén and Santa Cruz.

On Monday, February 2, the extraordinary sessions in the National Congress will begin, and the agenda is still being negotiated. In the last few hours it was confirmed that, in addition to the labor reform, the EU-Mercosur agreement and the reform of the glacier regime, the Juvenile Penal Law will also be discussed and, from Patagonia, governors press to include the Ignea Emergency Law. From November to date, forest fires were charged more than …

As the fires in the south of the country advance, the governors of the provinces of Patagonia urged the Congress of the Nation to discuss and approve in extraordinary sessions an Ignean Emergency Law. So far, the flames razed with more than 230 thousand hectares. Ignacio Torres (Chubut), Sergio Ziliotto (La Pampa), Alberto Weretilneck (Rio Negro), Rolando Figueroa (Neuquén), Claudio Vidal (Santa Cruz) and Gustavo Melella (Tierra del Fuego) led a…

Argentina is experiencing a season of forest fires that has intensified since the beginning of January 2026, with a marked concentration in the Patagonian region of the south of the country. The most affected provinces are Chubut, Río Negro and Santa Cruz, where fire sources have remained active for weeks and have consumed vast tracts of native and planted forests, as well as shrubs and grasslands. The first major focus began on January 5 in Pue…

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The serious underfunding of the national state under the management of Javier Milei, popularly known as "motosierra", has been pointed out as one of the main factors that aggravated the forest fires that currently affect Patagonia, especially in Chubut (where they have already been consumed).

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diariopanorama.com broke the news in on Tuesday, January 27, 2026.
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