Ciudad Victoria, Tam.-
The strong winds associated with the high temperatures and drought conditions that prevail in most of the municipalities of Tamaulipas continue to generate fires especially in difficult access areas.
Only in the Sierra Tamaulipas, in the area covered by the municipality of Casas, the drought combined with the high temperatures, have generated three forest fires in that region, especially in places of difficult access, which have injured an area greater than the thousand hectares, Daniel Alejandro Peñaloza Medellín estimated.
The Director of Natural Resources and Management of Protected Natural Areas, in the Ministry of Urban Development and Environment (Seduma), explained that fortunately, the accident is leaflet and a minimum affectation in what includes high cup trees, which have not been reached by fire.
“We currently have two forest fires in the Sierra Tamaulipas, considered the greatest active, in the ejido Heart de Jesus that in this case covers two municipalities, Casas and Soto La Marina,” said the public servant.
It is a kind of “fire complex” in different points of what this sector of the Sierra Tamaulipas includes, where great efforts are made to control and liquidate, although the conditions of the area complicate the work of brigades and other personnel who are responsible for combat.
To date, he pointed out that, due to the advance of the season, generated by the absence of rainfall and the dry thing in which most of the surface of Tamaulipas is located, especially the mountainous area, the amount of wrecked hectares so far this year, exceeded those registered in 2024.
“We have the registration of ten thousand hectares sinister on average for an average of 15 fires, a figure that exceeds what was registered in the same season, but last year,” he said.
He admitted that, if not recorded rainfall, the threat of new fires remains latent, taking into account that dry conditions, high temperatures and strong winds will continue to register. (With information from Alfredo Guevara / The MX newspaper)
