Wildfires ravage Argentine Patagonia, leaving 250 homes destroyed and 15 people missing
Wildfires are burning through Argentine Patagonia since Tuesday, March 9, 2021, leaving some 250 homes destroyed, dozens injured, and around 15 people missing. As of March 12, the flames have scorched about 2 000 ha (4 900 acres).
The fires may have started in a Las Golondrinas sector and then advanced towards Lago Puelo on Tuesday, March 9, according to officials.
"It's a fire that began within the forest where there are the extreme conditions for it to expand," said Lago Puelo Mayor Augusto Sanchez.
Winds caused the flames to spread rapidly, devastating forests and some 250 houses and also prompting about 350 people to evacuate.
Seven people sustained injuries, one of whom was seriously hurt. Environment Minister Juan Cabandié reported at a press conference that at least 15 people went missing.
"I had my house and there's nothing left."
Seven people were injured, and 15 more are missing as wildfires ravage Argentina. Authorities attribute the rapid spread of the fires to high temperatures and windy conditions. pic.twitter.com/mo9IhiyPFa
— DW News (@dwnews) March 12, 2021
Argentina's Patagonia is on fire. Lago Puelo, El Hoyo, El Maitén, Cerro Radal, El Bolsón, need our help. No one is talking about it from the National State or the media. Spread the word. pic.twitter.com/SINO4qmaAN
— alvaro2k (@alvaroacb2) March 12, 2021
DIOS.. PERDIMOS LA CASA!!
De terror lo que esta pasando en el Sur. Y el Estado ausente.
HDPS pic.twitter.com/lywYjIxqg0— @esteban.coco (@estebancoco1) March 11, 2021
Varios focos de incendio azotan la Patagonia. Son 7 localidades afectadas en Río Negro y Chubut. El ministerio de @AmbienteNacion envió 2 helicópteros, 3 aviones hidrantes, 12 autobombas, vehículos de apoyo y 104 brigadistas trabajan para mitigarlos. pic.twitter.com/d2mWmqzPlj
— Wado de Pedro (@wadodecorrido) March 10, 2021
Other areas affected by the fires were El Bolsón, El Maitén, Epuyén, Futaleufú, and El Hoyo.
In El Hoyo, rains have put out the fire but embers remain under the ash layer, regional government spokesman Alejandro Otero told the AFP.
As of Friday, the flames have burned around 2 000 ha (4 900 acres) of land.
The national government has deployed two helicopters, three fire hydrant planes, 12 fire engines, support vehicles, and 62 firefighters to combat the blaze, according to President Alberto Fernandez.
Featured image credit: Wado de Pedro
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Well.my mother lives in the epicenter of this dissaster ,they have put a reward on the guilty ones…Its terrible nearly 400 families lost their homes in less the 4 hours….THE PIT OF HELL OPENED,and here you got the result…I live in the neigbourgh country,Chile,under full quarintine .and can not cross the border to be with her!!..How do you think i feel right now???
If you wish to live in a wooded area, on the ocean beach, in a rivers flood plain, near a volcano, on a fault line, in hurricane country or some other place that mother nature can come after you, You will eventually get to know her well.
If you knew the true cause of climate change (not CO2), you wouldn’t type anything you just did.
If you knew the true cause of climate change (Not CO2), you wouldn’t have typed anything you just did.
Take a look at YOUTUBE Channel – Melkeb. You might find it eye opening. Things happening in places where they “shouldn’t / have never happened”
actually…use Bitchute – Melkeb.
Youtube deleted the original account I think due to copyright strikes.
I am very sad to hear about the problems for the people of Argentina, as if life ain’t hard enough….I am praying for you; God Bless!
In this year wildfires will be worse than in the previous year, due to the further weakening of Earth’s magnetic field and the increase of lightning. And, the reason for the increase of lightning is the increase of cosmic rays in the atmosphere of our planet, not because of global warming, as the myth makers want you to believe. I have explained this issue in great detail in my article that was published last year, 2020 with NEXUS Magazine https://nexusmagazine.com/product/the-helical-sun/?v=35b5282113b8
Exactly. And where’s Greta Reset calender girl? Skiing with her father, oh the irony
Haven’t you seen lightning in slo-mo, mr.knowitall?
Somebody who kind of gets it!
And the reason for magnetic field DISTORTIONS is because of microwave radiation from cellular phone masts, satellite internet, satellite TV….
Aircraft radar, airport radar, Microwave TV/telephone backhaul (Started in 1950s, if not early 40s)
correction – late 1940s
the sun hasn’t changed. CO2 increase comes AFTER temperature increase (Ice cores – Scientific American) We have/are changing the earth.