Alert in the west of La Pampa due to fires: A "perfect combination" burned 83 thousand hectares and the "risk

Desperate hours are being lived in western La Pampa due to successive outbreaks of fires recorded in the towns of Jacinto Arauz and Santa Isabel. In this Pampas region, 83,000 hectares are already counted under fire, many of them in rural and grassland areas, with ideal conditions for the development of fire outbreaks, which, although they were controlled, alerts for flare-ups of the fire continue due to perfect conditions for the appearance of flames. With high temperatures, wind, and abundant combustible material (natural grasslands), the fire began in this region of La Pampa, and there are alerts for ranchers in the area and the provincial authorities of Civil Defense. According to meteorologist Cindy Fernández from the National Meteorological Service (also from La Pampa), there were also records in the southeast of the province, because, in that sector, on December 26, a line of storms with little rain and many lightning strikes generated several fires in the southeast of La ...