Forest fires: Onemi reports that six communes are on Red Alert and there are 9 incidents that remain in combat

Onemi delivered a new report on forest fires affecting the country. According to what was reported, six communes are on Red Alert and 9 accidents remain in combat.
According to its director (s), Mauricio Tapia, in the last hours 17 fires were extinguished, while 38 are controlled.
In the same way, he indicated that six communes are on Red Alert, three in the Valparaíso Region and another three in the Metropolitan. The communes correspond to Quilpué, Villa Alemana, Santo Domingo, Easter Island, Curacaví, Lampa and San Pedro.
Precisely the Valparaíso Region is the one that has left the most damage: in the Pangui Rosa sectors, in Santo Domingo 2,492 hectares have been burned; in Cerro Viejo, Quilpué, 1,300; and in Quebrada Escobar, Villa Alemana, 650.
On Easter Island, the “Peka Peka” fire is still active, which has consumed three hectares inside the Rapa Nui National Park.
Meanwhile, in the Metropolitan Region, the losses with the highest level of destruction are Fundo Carén, in Curacaví and Lampa, with 7,627 hectares affected; and in the Cuesta el Membrillo, in San Pedro, with 30.
“To address these emergencies, all the resources deployed are on the ground, in coordination with the local and regional levels,” he said.
“We reiterate the call to the population to reinforce self-care behaviors in the face of forest fires, not lighting fires or manipulating color sources in vegetation areas,” he concluded.

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