translated from Spanish: Piñera advises that combat forest fires of Aysén will hold at least 10 days

President Sebastián Piñera said that the Government will keep the work of the different brigades that have worked to control the fire in Aysen at least 10 days more. 
Then hold a meeting in a technical table on Thursday in the Cochrane district, Piñera noted how the country reacted to this emergency, “because this is a fire that began on February 4, and the next day was decreed the alert yellow and the alert” “red, and here were the first brigades fighting it”.
“The weather conditions were extremely difficult: high temperatures, strong winds, low humidity.” In fact, many airplanes and helicopters that came to fight fires had to return to their base, not be able to continue flying given weather conditions”, he said. 
The President added that “in this fire, we could have, at various times, of 8 aircraft, the two Tanker Ten capable of pouring 36 liters for each operation, the Air Tractor, aircraft Guide, also a Hercules aircraft and seven helicopters that we had,” In addition to the brigades, heavy machinery, to be able to control it”.
“Today the fire is under control, but we are not going to lower the arms and why we believe that for at least the next 10 days, will continue to work brigades and helicopters to extinguish possible sources that could revive”.
In addition, the President pointed out that the fire in South colony, which affected about 15 thousand hectares, led to “ecological damage that will take decades in power to recover”, by which announced that he is being monitored with the authorities “how to achieve recovery with the greatest speed possible damage, reforesting with native species forests that burned”. 
Finally, Pinera said that “today we are with yellow alert and just conditions permit we will get this alert because the fire, thank God, is now a thing of the past, but tasks to recover what the fire destroyed and give them better “opportunities to isolated regions, as this commune of Cochrane, is the great task that we have all to the future”.

Original source in Spanish

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