El intendente de San Esteban, Juan Guevara, expresó su preocupación por la posible intencionalidad detrás de los focos recientes, señalando que en el último año y medio hubo 200 incidentes similares.
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00:00I'm going to contact and say hello to Juan Guevara, Intendant of San Esteban, there in Córdoba.
00:06We are here to join, to collaborate, to see what hand we can give.
00:10Intendant Facundo Pastora, here in A24. How are you?
00:14How are you? Good day, Facundo.
00:15Good. Tell us, what situation are you experiencing there, Juan?
00:19Well, today in San Esteban, much calmer. The truth is that the concern has already passed.
00:25We had very difficult days, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, above all.
00:30But hey, we don't have active fires today.
00:33Only a ash guard in some sectors and fire to the limit with Capilla del Monte.
00:39Of course. That ash guard, Intendant, has to do with controlling if there is still accumulated fire or hot ash,
00:48which when lifting the wind can go, well, going from one side to the other, right?
00:53A lot of temperature. The weather has not helped at all during these days.
00:59Many neighbors have made night guards during the day, trying to put out any fire they observed,
01:06to avoid a restart. The truth is that at nap time it gets very hot.
01:11And well, we don't have much forest that regulates the temperature, let's say.
01:17So it has been with that work all these days.
01:21Yes, Javier Díazoy. Let's see, you, who is also on the ground and is linked to politics.
01:28Do you think that all fires are intentional in this case?
01:33At least this one, I think so.
01:36Why?
01:37The others, I don't know because I don't know precisely where they started.
01:43I know the area where they are, but I don't know where they started.
01:46And why do you think that where you are, it is intentional?
01:49The truth is that I don't know.
01:51This fire transcends, but a long time ago, with the police, with volunteer firefighters,
01:59with ETAC and with the local authorities here in the north of Pugunilla, from the summit to the north.
02:05We are worried that we have a person who sets fire on a regular basis.
02:10And in the last year and a half, we have had about 200 fires that have been extinguished immediately.
02:17They have had a rapid attack by firefighters and they have been extinguished.
02:20But sorry, because we here in the city say that it is a real estate issue.
02:27Because yesterday the governor...
02:29What is the reason? What is the motivation?
02:32What he said is that many of the places where fires are lit cannot be used as homes,
02:42nor as a tourist attraction or anything like that.
02:43That is, they are prevented.
02:45So, if they set fire to everything, they could not occupy it at some point in life.
02:51That's right, it protects the law.
02:53In one of the areas where we have the greatest number of intentional fires,
02:58or we have actually had a long time ago, it is a housing area,
03:02it is an area that is already looted, it is an area that has been built
03:05and that is being built little by little, private homes.
03:09So, I also despise that motivation of the real estate business behind it.
03:15They have burned fields of producers who are second or third generation producers
03:20and who are going to continue dedicating themselves to that.
03:22So, I really disbelieve it.
03:25That is, they are or is a pyromaniac who is acting there.
03:30Set fire because yes.
03:32I do not find the motivation.
03:33But do you know, Mr. Mayor, that you have identified someone
03:39who is indeed dedicated to doing this?
03:42We have not identified him, otherwise he would be arrested.
03:45Well, but there are ten detainees.
03:47I don't know how many there are and I don't know what facts are indicated to them.
03:50That is already a task of the prosecution, the investigative work is in charge of them.
03:54So, I can't assure you that.
03:57I don't know what is indicated to them.
03:59Mr. Mayor, what do they need?
04:02What can we help with?
04:04Beyond clarifying, logically, that there is no fire brigade going around
04:08because there is a lot of confusion and a lot of living with this, right?
04:12Well, that always happens, right?
04:15Yes, I know that there are brigades that work alongside the volunteer firefighters
04:19who are always receiving collaboration and they are genuine collectives, right?
04:24I'm not going to discredit or put them all in the same bag.
04:27And then the fire brigades need partners.
04:30Let's see, we don't remember the firefighters when we have fires.
04:34And the rest of the year, it seems that they don't exist.
04:37That collaboration is necessary.
04:39Regarding the relief of damages and getting started,
04:43a few days ago we are already working with the government of the province
04:46to try to recompose, to the greatest extent possible, all this,
04:50starting with the serious damage.
04:52There are people who have lost their homes 100%.
04:55We are already working with them to get started.
04:58This is in coordination with the ministries of the government of the province.
05:01Are they receiving help from the provincial government, Lieutenant?
05:04Since Thursday, which was the first day of the fire,
05:08the ministry of the government of the province has made itself available.
05:12Good. And is it enough or is it not enough?
05:16Look, this is the day after.
05:18This has...
05:20Let's see, we are having two issues.
05:22In San Estebanoy, the reconstruction.
05:25The loss of homes, water and electricity networks.
05:29We are going to restore the basic services
05:31and recover in the first instance the destroyed house,
05:34which is a unique house in almost all cases.
05:37That, on the one hand.
05:39Then the resources of the province to deal with this natural disaster.
05:43I think they have been enough.
05:46It is my personal opinion.
05:48The climate did not accompany us.
05:50And with whom you speak here in the area,
05:53there has never been a fire of this magnitude and with this degree of violence
05:56and seasoned by the climatic condition.
05:59Of the heat, with more than 30 degrees in this time of year
06:02and with the strong winds that blew every day.
06:05Of course.
06:07Let's see, Lieutenant, I come back with the question
06:09to be able to make a contribution from here.
06:12What do they need?
06:14What do they need both from politics and from the people who are watching us?
06:17That it rains, right?
06:19Yes, but that is complicated for now.
06:21That is a natural condiment that of course we need.
06:26And then, as I was saying, the issue of reconstruction.
06:30The government is present.
06:32We are getting ready to start tomorrow, if possible,
06:37with the reconstruction of damages.
06:40And then it will be a process of the recovery of the environment.
06:43Of course.
07:05Of course.
07:07Lieutenant, we send you a huge greeting.
07:09Let's hope that soon everything can return to normal
07:11and they can meet again with the day-to-day
07:14that they had until very recently.
07:16And obviously, that all the weight of the law falls
07:19to those who are behind this.
07:22If it is that, as you said, justice manages to establish
07:26that there are fires that have been generated on purpose, right?
07:31Look, the weight of the law has to fall on whoever generates the fire.
07:35Whether by guilt or by pain, it has to be punished.
07:39This must be evidenced.
07:42The governor has expressed his respect
07:44by asking for the penalties to be hardened for this.
07:47Because it cannot be that the fire escapes me
07:50and we do not know how it ends.
07:52And this does not have a hard sentence.
07:54This is razed land.
07:56It looks like a post-war scene, San Esteban, today.
08:00And it hurts us a lot. The people are moved.
08:03How strong, Lieutenant, that which you say.
08:05Do you feel that your people, San Esteban,
08:07when you go out, you see post-war scenes?
08:11Look, one goes through the hills, the mountains,
08:15where the highest houses have been razed by the fire.
08:18And it is devastating.
08:20I just heard there, before going out into the air,
08:22where they were going.
08:24I am about 500 meters from the field of Corral de Piedra.
08:27And it is razed land.
08:29The animals have run out of food.
08:32Beyond the economic and material loss,
08:36we have had a capital environmental damage.
08:39And well, we are also on the move to rebuild it.
08:42It will not take long.
08:44But we are on our way to that too.
08:46Lieutenant, are there many neighbors
08:48who lost 100% of their homes?
08:51In San Esteban, four.
08:53And a couple of homes with partial damage.
08:56In Los Cocos, which is the neighboring town,
08:59the number is a little higher.
09:01In Capilla del Monte, similar to this one.
09:03And well, then you have to see in the Charbonnier area
09:06what damage it has caused, which I do not know.
09:09Of course.
09:11And how do you help those neighbors who lost everything?
09:14You are going to rebuild the house.
09:17Here you will be helped.
09:19You are going to rebuild the house.
09:21Yes, today we are giving you a message of hope.
09:24Because they were, until a few hours ago,
09:27the truth that desolate, without knowing what to do.
09:30And well, we will accompany you in this.
09:32The municipal government along with the provincial government.
09:35It is a decision of the provincial government
09:38to recover their homes.
09:40Of course.
09:42Lieutenant, and in the tourist area,
09:45are there affected businesses?
09:48In San Esteban, no.
09:50In Los Cocos, there may be some.
09:53Well, La Herosilla was affected.
09:55A very well-known walk in Los Cocos.
09:57Of course, La Herosilla was affected.
09:59In Capilla del Monte, perhaps also.
10:00Yes, yes, yes.
10:02In front of the walk, there is the rest.
10:05And then, well, in parallel,
10:07we are already guaranteeing food for the animals,
10:10for the cattle that have been left standing.
10:12Of course, I was also going to ask you about the animals.
10:15Because before we saw with Belen Bianchi,
10:17with our colleague who was there,
10:19affected animals, very affected.
10:22Yes, there are many dead animals.
10:25Then, in March, a network of veterinarians
10:28also for the attention of animals
10:31that have been partially burned.
10:33But hey, today we have to solve the food
10:35of the animal that has been left standing.
10:37That is also already underway.
10:39Tomorrow we will receive a balanced food match
10:42from the province government.
10:44And for today, it will be resolved
10:47with alfalfa leaves, for example.
10:49Of course, the balanced food will replace
10:51the grass they used to eat, right?
10:53Yes, that's right.
10:55No, there is very little grass left.
10:56Very little.
10:58How incredible, how incredible.
11:00And I was thinking, Lieutenant,
11:02in those families, in the meantime,
11:04the one who lost the house in full.
11:07Where is it going to stop?
11:09We are together with them looking for a rental
11:11that will be covered as long as the reconstruction work lasts.
11:14It will be like that.
11:16The remediation will be total.
11:18It costs a lot to have a house in the interior.
11:21People have less purchasing power,
11:24perhaps, than in the capital cities.
11:27And it is necessary to accompany them.
11:29In my case, in San Esteban,
11:31it is a community that is not too big.
11:33We all know each other.
11:35And the truth is that this catastrophe
11:37has mobilized the people
11:39and has shown how supportive it is too.
11:41Of course, of course.
11:43Lieutenant, thank you very much.
11:45Here we are, of course, to help you
11:47and make visible everything
11:49that is being lived there in the province
11:51and in the different places.
11:52Not only that, sorry,
11:54but a request that we all make,
11:56all the lieutenants, the governor too,
11:58to raise awareness among the people
12:00that starting a fire in the mountains
12:02is not a minor thing.
12:04There are prohibited areas.
12:06We, in the swamps, in the tourist areas,
12:08have sectors of grills
12:10where it is allowed to light a fire
12:12to make a barbecue, to heat water,
12:14for whatever.
12:16But outside of that, there is no need to set fire.
12:18Of course, of course, very clear.
12:20Lieutenant, a big hug, thank you.