📋 Tender Overview
The National Fire Management Service (SNMF) made available new resources in the peak fire season in Río Negro, Chubut and La Pampa, where various actions are carried out in order to provide collaboration and assistance to the different jurisdictions and national parks that make them up.
The Undersecretary of the Environment, which depends on the Ministry of the Interior of the Nation, provided two helicopters, one for Río Negro and another that is working on a forest fire in the Lihué Calel National Park in La Pampa. Likewise, as part of the prevention actions, machinery has been delivered to carry out tasks of reducing forest fuel and cleaning access roads, which was complemented with a dump truck (to optimize cleaning tasks), a 4x4 truck and a 4x4 forestry pumper. This is in addition to the actions of articulation and joint work with the jurisdiction in terms of training and prevention campaigns in educational establishments.
At the same time, one of the three National Brigades that the SNMF currently has is located in the region, particularly in the province of Chubut (Las Golondrinas), where it has already provided support in some recent events, so it is fully available if required.
Likewise, on December 27, the aforementioned National Brigade led at the Aerodrome of the town of El Bolsón (Rio Negro), an operational demonstration of the capabilities of one of the COE (Emergency Operations Command) trucks that remains in readiness to support the provinces in fires that require this tool that provides a space for planning. They are equipped with ground and aeronautical communications, screens, computers and weather station. The event was attended by the National Fire Management Service through its Southern National Brigade, the Provincial Fire Management Service (SPMF) of CHUBUT with personnel from its Golondrinas, Patriada, Epuyén and Lago Puelo Bases), the SPLIF Forest Fire Prevention and Fighting Service of Río Negro, with its El Bolsón Power Plant, Sub Central Foyel and El Manso, were also present, the Lago Puelo Volunteer Fire Station, Rio Negro Civil Protection, Chubut Civil Protection Northwest Delegation.
Finally, it is worth mentioning that, in the months prior to the start of the season, the province of Rio Negro has been the beneficiary, like the rest of the country's jurisdictions, of specific equipment for firefighting such as hand tools, pumping equipment, personal protection elements, among others. In addition, water reservoirs suitable for supplying water from pumps, motor pumps, helicopters and hydrant aircraft loading have been distributed.
