Fire fills Cochabamba with smog and pollution

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La llajta awoke to a haze of smoke blanketing the city center following a forest fire registered by the department, Corani, Colomi, around the Mizque dam and weekends in San Benito, Alalay and Sacaba.

Forest firefighters, police and Risk Management Group (UGR) as well as teams of volunteers arrived in the affected area with the sole mission of fighting the blaze, which had destroyed more than 600 hectares of native vegetation in the Kolomi and Candlestick areas, Where work is performed for more than three days.

Fernando Fernandez, director of the Cochabamba government’s risk management unit (UGR), said the emergency was 95 percent contained, but a state of emergency was declared in the metropolitan area. “Massive Pollution” A product of the Sakaba fire.

The problem with pollution, smog and toxic gases is that they affect citizens, especially children, Can log respiratory problems and eye infections like conjunctivitis.

Fighting forest fires continues mainly in Kolomi. Initial reports say hotspots have emerged in cities in the Southern Cone, such as Tortola and Pocona.

Volunteer firefighters have shared devastating footage, as the struggles of wildlife in fire-affected areas are evident. The little birds are fighting in the nest, trying to survive.

To make matters worse, another fire broke out in Tortola on the night of Monday 21 August.

The smoke has draped a cloak over the iconic image of Concorde Christian Church, and environmentalists have suggested that while the pollution has not been measured, the damage to the ecosystem is irreversible, especially since a layer of carbon monoxide is created in the atmosphere So-called carbon is produced before the first rain “acid rain”.

Pollution from fires At the same time, the temperature dropped across the city, with the lowest temperature below 10 degrees Celsius.

This is what Cochabamba looks like: