[News] They declare a red alert for Viña del Mar and order the evacuation of five inhabited sectors due to a forest fire

[FNX Magokiler]

According to information from Onemi, the incident has consumed an approximate area of 15 hectares.

The Presidential Delegation of the Valparaíso Region decreed a Red Alert this Thursday for the Viña del Mar commune, due to a forest fire that developed in the vicinity of inhabited sectors. The flames would be affecting the vicinity of the Agua Santa intake sector, in front of the Felipe Camiroaga camp, and are spreading rapidly.

Some homes would have already been hit by fire.

As a result of this situation, the evacuation of the Puerto Montt, Puerto Aysén, Cabritera, Forestal Alto and Toma Felipe Camiroaga sectors was requested, a procedure carried out through SAE messaging. According to information from the National Emergency Office (Onemi), the incident -called Nueva Esperanza- is in combat and has consumed an approximate area of 15 hectares.

"With the declaration of the Red Alert, all the necessary and available resources will be mobilized, in additional support to what has already been deployed by Conaf, Firefighters and the National System for Prevention and Response to Disasters (SINAPRED)", indicated Onemi. "In this way, action will be taken to control the situation, given the extent and severity of the event," he added.

The emergency has generated a large cloud of smoke, visible from different parts of the region.

 

 

The presidential delegate of Valparaíso, Sofía González, explained to CNN Chile that the fire is "very complex" and that it is taking place in "the Nueva Esperanza Sector of the Viña del Mar commune." "Regarding the different projections that both Conaf and Onemi have presented at the regional level, we have declared a Red Alert and it has also been determined to carry out some evacuations, in order to be able to take care of the integrity of the people," she said. He pointed out that "at this moment different services are deployed, different brigades from both the Conaf, the Fire Department of Valparaíso, Viña del Mar, Villa Alemana, some cistern trucks in addition to the municipalities, health teams and other services of the delegation". "The call is to the public, to the neighbors to remain calm and to follow the indications that they may receive from the different organizations that are on the ground. We know that it is a very complex situation, very distressing, but rest assured that this decision has to do with caring for the integrity of people while we attend to the emergency that is in progress," González said.

 

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