More than 30 men of the Disaster Prevention and Response Brigade and relief agencies are working to completely extinguish the conflagration.
Soldiers of the National Army's Disaster Prevention and Assistance Brigade, in coordination with the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management, Civil Defense, the Red Cross and the National Fire Department, continue to make progress in controlling the forest fire that has been reported for two days in Tomin茅, municipality of Guatavita, in the department of Cundinamarca.
So far, thanks to that work, 90 percent of the conflagration is now under control. This important progress was possible after members of the Military Forces, trained and prepared to face this kind of emergency, arrived at the different fire spots to initiate protocols and support the mitigation of the fire.
At this hour the work of extinguishing the fire by the military and relief agencies continues to progress and it is expected that in the coming hours this emergency will be controlled 100 percent, which according to data of the authorities, has hit about 15 hectares.
The National Army calls on society to prevent burning, bonfires and not leaving matches, cigarette butts or bottles that generate fires in the forests, thus contributing to the protection of natural resources, since at this time of the year the cases of forest emergencies increase.
Source: press-National Army
