🚨Nuevo incendio en Pululahua, Quito: bomberos ejecutan labores de detención | Televistazo — Transcript

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1. 0:00A new fire in the northwest of Quito,
2. 0:03this time in Pululagua. At this moment,
3. 0:06a Televistazo team is right at the
4. 0:08Pululagua crater, where firefighters
5. 0:10are focusing their efforts to control
6. 0:12this forest fire. Diego Puente is
7. 0:14accompanying these brigades at that
8. 0:16location. Diego, what is the situation?
9. 0:21We are at the Pululagua volcano crater,
10. 0:24an inactive volcano north of Quito. The
11. 0:27flames that started in the Tanlagua
12. 0:29sector, also in northern Quito, in San
13. 0:31Antonio de Pichincha, have advanced
14. 0:33this far. We are here with Captain
15. 0:36Edwin Cabrera. Captain, please inform
16. 0:38us how many firefighting personnel are
17. 0:41currently activated to handle this
18. 0:43emergency. Good evening. Yes, we
19. 0:46currently have 20 personnel from the
20. 0:48fire department. We have a firefighting
21. 0:51unit to protect the homes in the lower
22. 0:54area. We are currently working on two
23. 0:58flanks, the left and right, fighting to
24. 1:01try and prevent the forest fire from
25. 1:04spreading further into the surrounding
26. 1:07forests and thus avoiding the
27. 1:09destruction of flora and fauna. We have
28. 1:14been working with two crews, performing
29. 1:16monitoring, scraping, and extinguishing
30. 1:18efforts to keep the fire from spreading
31. 1:20further.
32. 1:22Captain, what difficulties does this
33. 1:23fire present? We see that it is a very
34. 1:26steep slope that is currently on fire,
35. 1:28which the camera is focusing on right
36. 1:31now.
37. 1:32Of course, we must take into account
38. 1:33that the topography of the Pululagua
39. 1:35volcano is very irregular. Also, with
40. 1:37the night conditions, we have a lot of
41. 1:40fog, which makes visibility difficult
42. 1:43for the fire department personnel. But
43. 1:46even so, we remain on-site, monitoring
44. 1:48and preventing the fire from spreading.
45. 1:52We are looking for the best conditions
46. 1:54to continue fighting the fire. Likewise
47. 1:57, we are going to keep personnel here
48. 1:58monitoring the fire so it does not
49. 2:00continue to spread. Right now, you can
50. 2:04feel the wind beginning to pick up; the
51. 2:06wind speed has increased, which makes
52. 2:08it a very unsafe condition to work in.
53. 2:12Because if we go into the forest to
54. 2:15work, it could create great difficulty
55. 2:18for the personnel, both for visibility
56. 2:20and for having effective attack methods
57. 2:23. Likewise, we have spoken with the
58. 2:27homeowners and let them know that we
59. 2:29are staying at the location until the
60. 2:32fire is extinguished, while the fire
61. 2:34department continues to work.
62. 2:37It is the third consecutive night that
63. 2:39firefighters have been working to
64. 2:40extinguish the fire that started in the
65. 2:42Tanlagua area. Uh, citizens are
66. 2:46reminded not to conduct agricultural
67. 2:48burns or any kind of burning, as
68. 2:50conditions are favorable for forest
69. 2:53fires to spread easily. This is the
70. 2:56report we have so far.
71. 2:58Thank you, Diego, for your report. We
72. 3:00will continue to monitor the situation
73. 3:02closely in that part of northwestern
74. 3:04Quito, which is also a tourist area and
75. 3:06a nature reserve. The flames, as we saw
76. 3:08, friends, continue to spread.
77. 3:12At least 250 hectares of vegetation
78. 3:15have been consumed by the forest fire
79. 3:17that began in Tanlagua and is now
80. 3:19affecting the Pululagua Geobotanical
81. 3:22Reserve in northwestern Quito. An
82. 3:25update on the effects of this emergency
83. 3:27with Diego Puente.
84. 3:31The community organized from the early
85. 3:32hours of the morning to fight the
86. 3:34intense fire advancing along the slopes
87. 3:35of the Tanlagua mountains. In San
88. 3:37Antonio de Pichincha, north of Quito.
89. 3:40This fire started Tuesday afternoon and
90. 3:42is spreading rapidly. According to
91. 3:45firefighters, it is the worst so far
92. 3:47this dry season in Quito and has
93. 3:49consumed more than 250 hectares. At 7
94. 3:52a.m. this Thursday, neighbors and
95. 3:54community members went up with machetes
96. 3:56, shovels, and jugs of water. They
97. 3:58positioned themselves on the fire line,
98. 4:00wanting to prevent this blaze from
99. 4:02advancing.
100. 4:03It is summer, and the winds are very
101. 4:05strong. And we are also requesting,
102. 4:08well, the army, the police, and the
103. 4:10firefighters, but we want helicopters
104. 4:12to come and drop water. That is
105. 4:15necessary.
106. 4:16They were in groups for nearly 10 hours
107. 4:18fighting the fire on seven fronts. They
108. 4:21claimed they had received no help from
109. 4:22the firefighters in their sectors. The
110. 4:24Quito Fire Department has been fighting
111. 4:26this fire since Tuesday night. Today
112. 4:29their members focused on Tanlagua and
113. 4:31the Pululagua crater, where there are
114. 4:33active hotspots. The extent of the
115. 4:35damage cannot yet be determined.
116. 4:37However, uh, after the fire is
117. 4:40extinguished, once we have done that,
118. 4:42we will have to conduct the respective
119. 4:45overflights to determine the
120. 4:47approximate affected area here on site.
121. 4:51The flames are advancing due to the dry
122. 4:53environment and strong winds. There is
123. 4:56an additional factor complicating the
124. 4:58extinction: the steep slopes. According
125. 5:01to the National Risk Management
126. 5:03Secretariat, there are two active fires
127. 5:05in Carchi, Imbabura, Pichincha, Azuay,
128. 5:07and Loja.