Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Havana, Jan 11.- The Cuban Forest Ranger Corps (CGC) announced the start of the Forest Fire Protection Campaign, which constitutes a national system in charge of preventing and confronting its outbreak in the country's vegetation and forests.
By video conference from the headquarters in the capital of that body of the Ministry of the Interior, its head, Colonel Manuel Lama Gómez, offered details of the new crusade with the participation of directors from the Ministry of Agriculture (Minagric), the Civil Defense, heads of the Minint in the provinces and representatives of other organizations.
With an eminently preventive vision, he said that it will include organizational actions, preparation, practical exercises and various communication actions in conjunction with groups of the central administration of the State, political, mass and social organizations, with the leading role of the people, in accordance with a large version of the Minint.
He warned about the need to continue raising the population's risk perception, preparation and coordination between the responsible forces and to take extreme prophylactic measures through more intentional communication messages in all cases.
He insisted that the drought, the accumulation of combustible material, the impact of other meteorological phenomena, climate change and negligence in fire management, force us to be proactive and adopt all the essential provisions.
The nation must be prevented from the million-dollar damages, the effects on the environment and human health that they can cause and that continue to threaten humanity throughout the planet, he explained.
Dagoberto Rodríguez Lozano, director of Soils and Fertilizers, Minagric, referred to the instructions given by Ydael Pérez Brito, its owner, to prioritize integrated work with the CGC, actions to raise awareness among producers and the population of agricultural areas about the causes of these events, increase control measures, the role of inspectors and the identification of prone areas.
Those attending the meeting agreed to share preventive actions through all channels and areas of communication that prevent the negligence that constitutes 95 percent of explosions.
The latter occur mainly due to burning for various purposes, smokers and irresponsible pedestrians, the circulation of vehicles with technical defects (without spark arresters), poachers and fishermen and illegal castrators of beehives. (ACN) (Photo: Taken from the Internet)
