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The Serra do Cip National Park has been burning for five days and the fire who takes care of the conservation unit still seems to be far from being controlled. But what is behind the difficulties of fighting on the ground?
For Brigadier Guilherme Duarte, who works volunteer 1, the slope of the terrain is challenging. In addition, the fact that the vegetation is dense makes the fire have a lot of material to burn.
“We started the fight around 5:30 am. We tried to put out a line of fire that I think was about four miles long. And we started on the steeper side: we were putting out the fire by Cliff”, Says the brigadier.
“We managed to control a good part of that line of fire, I think about four kilometers. I still had a small piece, which was in a very inaccessible place ”, he adds.
After much work, the group of brigades managed to reduce the damage, but the winds played against them. “We slept on the floor around 2 am, waiting for the fire to come down to put it out. Except when that fire went out, it did so with such force, with so much wind, that our priority was to open a gap so that we could escape ”, laments Guilherme Duarte.
According to him, in addition to causing flooding and claiming countless lives in January and February, rain the beginning of 2020 interferes with the burning season.
“The park long ago burn in some regions. It is my analysis, I do not know if it is correct: 2020 has rained a lot and the vegetation is very dense, very tall. As it is now dry, it has everything for the worse. The terrain is very rugged. It is very difficult to fight, ”he says.
To ocorrncia
The Serra do Cip fire started this Sunday (27). Although the first outbreak started outside the park, the flames reached the conservation unit around 9:00 p.m. that day on the border with the Altamira district.
This Thursday (1st) 110 people participated in the operation against the burning in the place. Currently, the hot spots are distributed in three areas: Confins / Cnion Bandeirinhas, Caetana and Travesso.
The work began around 1 am, with communication with the volunteers who help the authorities in the Travesso area.
During the day, 51 brigades from the Chico Mendes Institute for the Conservation of Biodiversity (ICMBio), 18 military firefighters and 12 volunteers were supported by an Air Tractor plane and two helicopters, one from the PM and the other from the firefighters.
In addition, the water and fuel trucks provided support to the combatants. The command of the operation brought together six ICMBio servers and eight military firefighters.
