Firefighters intervened in more than 1,500 fires since November 2024
The national Emergency System (SINAE) presented a balance of forest and field fires of the 2024-2025 season. The National fire Department carried out 1,554 interventions at 14,237 hectares.
The balance, developed from the analysis of data that comprise from November 1, 2024 to April 30, 2025, He revealed that National Fire Department intervened in 1,554 opportunitiesof which 1,230 were due to field fires; 293, from Monte, and 31, combined.
This meant A total of 14,237 hectares burned864 for mountains, 11,975 for the field and 1,398 for the combined ones.
The departments with the most affected surface were Salto, Artigas and Canelones. The largest amount of interventions were recorded in Montevideo, 345 cases, 207 in San José and 505 in Canelones.
-during the aforementioned period, It was hired, in a Zafral way, 150 people trained to act in field and forest fires. Besides, Five departments were created temporary at specific points From the coastal zone, to intervene faster, detailed the national fire deputy director, José Ribeiro.
The director of Sinae, Leandro Palomeque, indicated that the balance evidenced Superior results compared to the period 2023-2024. The number of interventions increased, from 900 to more than 1,500.
The president of the Uruguayan Institute of Meteorology (Inumet), Madeleine Renom, meanwhile, explained that, during the period analyzed, The rainfall deficit was greater in the northern and southern regions of the countryand that January was the most critical month in this aspect. Temperatures were above normalwith marked anomalies in the northeast and south region of the country during February and March.
Balance data spread at a press conference at the Executive Tower. The forest general director of the Ministry of Livestock, Luis Martínez, and the president of the Society of Forest Producers, Lucía Basso, also participated.
