What the fire took away: The productive impact starts to be measured in the western pampas, told by those who fought against it.

"Dry" electrical storms, high temperatures, dry grasslands and woods, and strong gusts of wind fueled fires in the western pampas for more than a month. At this time, with more than 83,000 hectares affected, authorities assure that there are no longer active foci but warn that it will not be an easy summer for the region. With the most compromised areas now under control, what remains to be known is the concrete impact at the productive level. Hundreds of producers are involved, who, for the moment, have not reported significant losses of livestock but have reported large areas of grass and fencing, in many cases with their entire fields compromised. But just as the fire is "capricious" and uncertain in its course, so are its effects. At this time, there are those who have not yet gone to survey their devastated lots, those who are still recovering from burns from fighting fire at night, with a shovel and the solidarity of neighbors, and those who warn that this "is not over yet." ...