📋 Tender Overview
The Cusco Regional Government has the capacity to respond promptly and immediately to forest fires that occur in different areas of the region. The Cusco Regional Government has the capacity to respond promptly and immediately to forest fires that occur in different areas of the region. This level of timely response is the result of the formation of 1,200 brigades, made up of personnel from the PNP, the Army and the Fire Department. This work is supported by the ongoing training offered to authorities and officials of local governments, responsible for disaster risk management in their jurisdictions; as well as the awareness-raising actions offered to community members to prevent fires.
It is important to highlight the work of the first response team, thanks to which forest fires are extinguished in approximately 36 hours, despite the presence of adverse scenarios that hinder arrival at the emergency site. Only in the districts of Acos, Acomayo, Colquemarca and Chumbivilcas were there prolonged fires.
From the regional government, we call on the general public to join the efforts to protect our forests, ecosystems and report any act of illegal burning. Remember that preventing a forest fire costs less than fighting it, said Werner Salcedo Alvarez. It should be noted that, at the national level, Cusco is a pioneer and the only region that has the Technical Committee on Forest Fires, where efforts are coordinated between different institutions to address the emergencies that afflict the entire country.
Meanwhile, the director of the Regional Office for Disaster Risk Management and Security - ORGRDS, Miguel Oscco Abarca, said that Cusco still has the capacity to respond, whether from the brigade members, from local governments, from firefighters, from the security personnel, we salute the response capacity that we have, one would like it to be in less time and surely we will achieve that the capacity to respond is much greater, he said.
As of yesterday, 283 forest fires were reported that affected nearly 11 thousand hectares of natural cover. It is no secret that forest fires in other departments of the country are out of control, therefore, from the COER Cusco, permanent monitoring, post-emergency evaluation and decentralized training are carried out to prevent and respond to forest fires.
Within this framework, last week the technical team of the Risk office was established in the districts of Echarati, Pichari and Santa Ana in the province of La Convencion. Meanwhile, during the course of this week it is planned to visit the districts of Mollepata and Huarocondo in Anta; and Huancarani in Paucartambo, where tools against forest fires are also delivered (fire extinguishers, shovels, rakes, machetes and picks).
