The Minister of the Interior, Carolina Tohá, reported on Saturday morning that the Foreign Ministry asked for international help to strengthen the fight against forest fires affecting the country. The objective is to be able to bring ships and brigade members.
“A request for international support has been made through the Foreign Ministry. Contact has been made with several governments to reinforce the efforts that had been made previously with the companies that provide services,” Tohá said at a press point.
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“These requests include the search for ships to reinforce the fleet and brigades that can reform the work on the ground,” continued the secretary of state.
The interior minister commented that the Foreign Ministry is in talks with Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico, Spain, among other countries.
In turn, he indicated that “an even broader call for support from the private sector within the country will be activated.” In that sense, he said that “we are going to expand the work that has been done at the regional level and also from Senapred, for example, to further expand the collaboration we are having with Corma.”
Minister Tohá also announced that the Government decreed a State of Emergency of Catastrophe for the Araucanía Region. The Executive had already applied this measure in the regions of Ñuble and Biobío.
Forest fires raging in the south of the country have left 16 dead.
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