The inaccessibility made it difficult for the members of our corps and the specialized brigades belonging to the La Palma agroforestry company to pass through, which extends its forest heritage to the tourist municipality, he said.
We organized the force to first protect human lives and stop the advance of the flames that spread across around 300 hectares of the forest dominated by female pine, Pereda said.
Located in the center of the Viñales mountain massif, which covers around 30 thousand hectares of the 62 thousand that are under the care of the La Palma agroforestry company, the fire left deep marks in the undergrowth.
Only in some areas did it reach the top of the pine trees despite its progress, commented Osmel Portales, general director of the La Palma agroforestry company that contributes 18 percent of the wood production in the western territory.
The Viñales fire, as already identified, ranks 31st in the list of accidents that have occurred so far this year in the second most reforested province in Cuba.
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