After more than a month since its activation, this Monday Senapred canceled the Red Alert for forest fire for the Bío Bío region.
On Monday night, more than a month following it was activated, the National Disaster Prevention and Response Service (Senapred) canceled the Red Alert for forest fire for the Bío Bío region.
Through a statement, said estate pointed out that the determination was due to the “coordination with the Regional Presidential Delegation, and in accordance with the request received by the Regional Directorate of CONAF”.
Likewise, the letter states that “The direct threat to homes is overcome in the fires that are active”.
Added to the above “the decrease in simultaneity” in forest fires in the Bío Bío region.
Also, it was taken into consideration that the Chilean Meteorological Directorate projects for the next days a lowering of maximum temperaturestogether with the development of cloudiness and probability of occurrence of weak precipitations”.
It should be remembered that the alert in question was decreed on February 2, the day in which the first accidents of this type were reported, which -to date- have cost the lives of 17 personas.
After the cancellation of the Red Alert for the region, the yellow alert for the area “From now on and until conditions warrant it”.
