International 'Out of control' fires ravage the Amazon region

[LeonardoBjj]

"The Amazon is in its worst state of the last 50 years.”
ByTrisha Mukherjee
September 10, 2024, 8:42 AM

LONDON -- Wildfires in the Amazon are choking swaths of Brazil, Bolivia and Ecuador with smoke, leading to evacuations, school closures, canceled flights and a dire threat to plant and animal life in the region in what officials say is thought to be the worst fires in 20 years.

An estimated 20% of the Brasilia National Forest burned just last week and officials have launched a probe into suspected arson as residents of the nearby Brazilian capital city of Brasilia reported coughs, stinging eyes and scratchy throats, according to park officials.

In Bolivia’s capital city of La Paz, many schools held virtual classes and flights to and from the region were delayed and canceled. Elsewhere, in the provinces of Beni, Santa Cruz and Pando, many farmers and indigenous Bolivians have evacuated their land as fires continued. More than 3 million hectares of land have already burned in Bolivia this year.

In Ecuador, the government deployed an anti-fire helicopter and specialized brigades to contain a wildfire that has lasted almost two weeks.

The wildfire season in the Amazon region used to last three months from August to October. Now, it stretches on for six months, said Efrain Tinta Guachalla, a socio-territorial investigator at Fundación Tierra, a Bolivian NGO dedicated to sustainable rural development.

Guachalla attributes the fires to a growing amount of farmland, often for soy and cattle, and the deforestation that occurs because of this expansion. Deforestation causes the land to dry out due to a rise in temperatures and decreasing rainfall, causing a greater risk of fires in the surrounding forests.

“The fires are out of control,” he said. “The land is full of scars from the burning.”

While occasional wildfires in Europe and the American West are normal considering the climate, he continued, the humid Amazon is never meant to burn. He says that rainforest flora and fauna are being wiped out at unprecedented rates.

“The fires in California or the fires in Europe, those aren’t the same as the fires in South America. There’s an enormous difference -- the loss of biodiversity,” said Guillermo Villalobos, a political scientist focusing on climate science at Bolivian nonprofit Fundación Solon. “Forests like the Amazon are historically tropical forests, meaning they’ve never burned, they’ve never coexisted with the fire. This is terribly tragic for the ecosystem and the world. The Amazon is in its worst state of the last 50 years.”

Over ten thousand species are at high risk of extinction, researchers say, in large part due to deforestation, according to a report by the Science Panel of the Amazon.

As climate change and global demand for agricultural products increase, Villalobos thinks the fires are only going to get worse as more land is cleared for farming, raising the risk of wildfires.

“We’re in an interminable loop,” he said. “A point of no return.”

https://abcnews.go.com/International/control-fires-ravage-amazon-region/story?id=113545475

 

[Siver!]

So dumb.

How can people who live in a country where the rainforest is everything treat it with such disdain?

 

[LeonardoBjj]

Smoke from Amazon fires reaches neighboring countries​

Amazonas and Pará account for more than half of the fires​

Lula - But love won!

As the fire season intensifies in the Amazon and the Pantanal due to climate change, cities in ten Brazilian states have experienced episodes of smoke and deteriorating air quality.

Images from the Center for Weather Forecasting and Climate Studies reveal a concentration of carbon monoxide spanning from Brazil´s North region to the South and Southeast, extending over Peru, Bolivia, and Paraguay. Last week, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) issued a health warning, advising necessary precautions in response to the situation.

Based on data from the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe), the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change issued a statement saying that in the Amazon biome, the states of Amazonas and Pará together account for over half (51.6%) of the fires recorded between January 1 and August 18, 2024. Since July 1, these two states have been responsible for 67.2 percent of the fires.

Affected area​

According to the Environmental Satellite Applications Laboratory at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Lasa-UFRJ), fires have burned 3.2 million hectares of the Amazon this year, representing 0.77 percent of the biome. In the Pantanal, nearly 1.9 million hectares have been affected by fire, accounting for 12.5 percent of the biome's area.

The Lasa-UFRJ Alarm System has issued an extreme fire danger alert for the Paraguay Basin in the Pantanal. The report indicates that until next Thursday (Aug. 22), the region will experience weather conditions that will hinder firefighting efforts, even from the air, due to the rapid spread of the fires.

Responding to fires​

Since June, a government-established situation room has been centralizing the federal response to fires across the country. In the Legal Amazon, BRL 405 million from the Amazon Fund has been allocated to support state fire brigade units. Additionally, an extraordinary credit of BRL 137.6 million has been released for the Pantanal, along with an additional BRL 13.4 million transferred to the Ministry of Integration and Regional Development for humanitarian aid and fighting forest fires.

https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/en...ke-amazon-fires-reaches-neighboring-countries

During Brazil’s worst drought, wildfires rage and the Amazon River falls to a record low​

BY FABIANO MAISONNAVE
Updated 3:47 PM BRT, September 10, 2024

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil is enduring its worst drought since nationwide measurements began over seven decades ago, with 59% of the country under stress — an area roughly half the size of the U.S.

Major Amazon basin rivers are registering historic lows, and uncontrolled manmade wildfires have ravaged protected areas and spread smoke over a vast expanse, plummeting air quality.

“This is the first time that a drought has covered all the way from the North to the country’s Southeast,” Ana Paula Cunha, a researcher at the National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters, said in a statement Thursday. “It is the most intense and widespread drought in history.”

Smoke on Monday afternoon caused Sao Paulo, a metropolitan area of 21 million people, to breathe the second most polluted air in the world after Lahore, Pakistan, according to data gathered by IQAir, a Swiss air technology company.

About 1,100 kilometers (683 miles) to the north, a wildfire is sweeping through Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park, one of Brazil’s most famous tourism sites.

“This year, the dry season started much earlier than in previous years, whereas the rain season was intense yet short,” Nayara Stacheski, head of the park, told The Associated Press.
“The wind is strong, the air humidity is very low and it’s extremely hot. All this worsens the wildfire.”

On Monday, there was one uncontrolled wildfire in a remote area. A helicopter was expected to arrive to transport firefighters. Another fire was controlled by 80 firefighters, with support from two aircraft. Two other fires were threatening to enter the park.

The blazes in one of the few protected areas of Cerrado, the Brazilian savanna, are just the latest drama in the country beset by months of blazes.
From the beginning of the year until Sept. 8, Brazil registered almost 160,000 fires
, the worst year since 2010. In Pantanal, the world’s largest wetland area, it has been the second worst fire year on record.

Most fires are manmade as part of the deforestation process or for clearing pastures and agricultural land. So far this year, an area the size of Italy has burned in Brazil.

Fire is not the only problem. More than 1,900 kilometers (1,200 miles) from Chapada dos Veadeiros to the Northeast, the Amazon — the world’s most voluminous river — and one of its main tributaries, the Madeira River, have registered new daily record lows at the city of Tabatinga. There’s no end sight — significant rain is not expected until October.

Smoke from wildfires hovers over the city amid dry weather in Brasilia, Brazil, early Monday, Aug. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Low river levels have stranded dozens of communities only accessible by water. One of the largest is Fidadelfia, inhabited by 387 families of the Tikuna tribe. Due to the drought, there is shortage of potable water and children are drinking dirty water, leading to a surge in illnesses. Food is becoming scarce as crops die and it’s increasingly difficult to travel to the city, local leader Myrian Tikuna told the AP.

Tikuna sent a selfie taken Monday in her community. Instead of water, endless banks of sand dominate the landscape.

“This used to be the Amazon River,” she said.
“Now it’s a desert. If things get worse, our people will disappear. Now we are realizing the severity of climate change.”

https://apnews.com/article/brazil-d...s-smoke-heat-7d96dbbf5c4339050fb24bbbde6c3b82

 

[LeonardoBjj]

So dumb.

How can people who live in a country where the rainforest is everything treat it with such disdain?

- People are really stupid. If you ever heard to most of our artists talking. They're like less charming Joey Tribianni"s

 

[fedorthegoat777]

I have been to the Ecuadorian Amazon. It is incredible.
Hopefully the fire gets put out soon.

 

[CatchnShoot]

So dumb.

How can people who live in a country where the rainforest is everything treat it with such disdain?

Well....... it's not like the rest of the world is doing their part y'know?

In addition a lot of the destruction of the rain forest over the years has been in the name of Westernizing their economies.

This happens here as well, and it is some sick shit.

 

[no fat chicks]

This one hurts. Climate change and over consumption and development is going to do a number on us in the coming years.

 

[Fox by the Sea]

is this map accurate? It was posted on 4chan.
i imagine the fires are in the "used to be big ass jungle" part.

 

[Yehudim]

So dumb.

How can people who live in a country where the rainforest is everything treat it with such disdain?

Because weak governments with no rule of law. For the most part, they officially care about the rain forest, but they can’t enforce shit. This is what happens when you’re colonized by Iberians.

 

[LeonardoBjj]

I have been to the Ecuadorian Amazon. It is incredible.
Hopefully the fire gets put out soon.

is this map accurate? It was posted on 4chan.
i imagine the fires are in the "used to be big ass jungle" part.

- Ther green, brown and purple part are on flames.
I live on the whiter than Dinamarca place.

 

[LeonardoBjj]

Because weak governments with no rule of law. For the most part, they officially care about the rain forest, but they can’t enforce shit. This is what happens when you’re colonized by Iberians.

- I dont think they really care. The farms move so much unreall money.

 

[LeonardoBjj]

 

[LeonardoBjj]

Brazil’s Lula pledges to finish paving road that experts say could worsen Amazon deforestation​

BY FABIANO MAISONNAVE
Updated 8:30 PM BRT, September 11, 2024

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — In a visit to see the damage caused by drought and fire in the Amazon, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva pledged to pave a road that environmentalists and some in his own government say threatens to vastly increase destruction of the world’s largest tropical forest — and contribute to climate change.

The BR-319 roadway is a mostly dirt road through the rainforest that connects the states of Amazonas and Roraima to the rest of the country. It ends in Manaus, the Amazon’s largest city with over 2 million people, and runs parallel to the Madeira River, a major tributary of the Amazon River.

The Madeira is at its lowest recorded level, disrupting cargo navigation, with most of its riverbed now endless sand dunes under a sky thick with smoke.

“We are aware that, while the river was navigable and full, the highway didn’t have the importance it has now, while the Madeira River was alive. We can’t leave two capitals isolated. But we will do it with the utmost responsibility,” Lula said Tuesday during a visit to an Indigenous community in Manaquiri, in Amazonas state. He didn’t specify what steps the government would take to try to prevent deforestation from increasing after paving.

Hours later, he oversaw the signing of a contract to pave 52 kilometers (32 miles) of the road, and promised to begin work before his term ends in 2026 on the most controversial section of the road — a 400-kilometer (249-mile) stretch through old-growth forest.

A permit for the longer stretch was issued under Lula’s far-right predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, who favored development in the Amazon and weakened environmental protections. In July, a federal court suspended the permit in a lawsuit brought by the Climate Observatory, a network of 119 environmental, civil society and academic groups.

Lula’s government had appealed the suspension, but it wasn’t until his visit on Tuesday that Lula made clear his plan to move ahead with paving. The Climate Observatory lamented the move.

“Without the forest, there is no water, it’s interconnected,” said Suely Araújo, a public policy coordinator with the group. “The paving of the middle section of BR-319, without ensuring environmental governance and the presence of the government in the region, will lead to historic deforestation, as pointed out by many specialists and by Brazil’s federal environmental agency in the licensing process.”

Lula has sought to portray himself as an environmental protector, and deforestation has slowed significantly since he took over for Bolsonaro. But he has also struck out at times against pressure from richer nations on preserving the Amazon, an invaluable resource for the planet in storing the carbon driving atmospheric warming, and did so again on Tuesday.

“The world that buys our food is demanding that we preserve the Amazon,” he said. “And why? Because they want us to take care of the air they breathe. They didn’t preserve their own lands in the last century during the Industrial Revolution.”

Brazil is enduring its worst drought ever recorded, with 59% of the country under stress — an area about half the size of the U.S. In the Amazon, rivers’ low levels have stranded hundreds of riverine communities, with shortage of potable water and food. Lula announced a wide distribution of water filters and other measures during his visit to the region.

Meanwhile, most of Brazil has been under a thick layer of smoke from wildfires in the Amazon, affecting millions of people in faraway cities such as Sao Paulo, Brasilia and Curitiba and reaching as far south as Argentina and Paraguay. At Lula’s event, Environment Minister Marina Silva blamed the extreme drought brought by climate change for the widespread fires in a rainforest usually resistant to fire, calling it “a phenomenon we don’t even know how to handle.”

Silva has been more cautious than Lula about paving the roadway. At a congressional hearing earlier, she called the Bolsonaro era’s permit a “sham” and praised the judicial ruling that suspended it.

Brazil is the world’s fifth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, contributing nearly 3% of global emissions, according to Climate Watch, an online platform managed by the World Resources Institute. Almost half these emissions stem from destruction of trees in the Amazon rainforest.

https://apnews.com/article/brazil-a...-change-lula-3871a113f1c276e082bd0b1781b36cfd

 

[LeonardoBjj]

Brazil’s fires: A wake-up call to climate change and human destruction of nature​

Neil Greenwood | September 11, 2024

This year alone, more than 760,000 hectares of land have burned in the Amazon and 1.3 million hectares in the Pantanal region. Since fall 2023, devastating fires have wreaked havoc in the Amazon rainforest and Pantanal wetlands.

Home to more than half of the world’s animal and plant species, the Amazon—often called the lungs of the planet—has spent months choking on smoke. In September and October, the capital city of the State of Amazonas, Manaus, had some of the most polluted skies in the world.

The Pantanal’s annual fire season usually ends in October. But thanks to climate change-induced extreme fire weather, the fires have extended well into the normal rainy season.

As of June 2024, the destruction exceeded records by more than 70%. This June was the driest, hottest, and windiest June in the Brazilian Pantanal on record. If the global temperature persists at 1.2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, we can expect such conditions to occur every 35 years. Fire weather, which includes lengthy periods of dry air, high temperatures, and severe winds, is now 40% more intense and four to five times more probable. If global warming worsens, such conditions will become even more common.

Deadly extreme heat ​

Brazil is hitting other disturbing records, too. On 19 November, the country recorded its hottest temperature ever: 44.8 degrees Celsius (112.6 degrees Fahrenheit). From August 22 to 25, over 60 million people in Brazil experienced temperatures as high as 39 degrees Celsius (102 degrees Fahrenheit); this is seven degrees Celsius (45 degrees Fahrenheit) above the normal temperatures for this time of year.

Heatwaves alone are often enough to push animals into danger. They become lethargic, so they don’t eat, which affects their overall health and ability to flee wildfires. Heat and drought conditions also contribute to unusually low water levels and high temperatures in rivers and lakes, which tragically caused a mass die-off of endangered Amazon and Tucuxi river dolphins in Lake Tefé in October.

The problem with these extreme weather events is not only the heat, flames, and smoke but also their deadly knock-on effects. Habitat loss, polluted water sources, the death of prey or vegetation on which animals rely, and the human neighbourhoods to which they flee all threaten wildlife, even after they survive the initial disaster.

Most of the fires are not natural occurrences but are started by humans trying to clear land for livestock or crops. When those fires combine with the unpredictable weather patterns we’re seeing because of climate change—especially high heat, low rainfall, and strong winds—they engulf a tremendous amount of land so quickly that our most precious and vulnerable natural resources are left desolate.

Pollution resulting from the fires is also deadly for animals and people. On August 20, the concentration of cancer-causing microparticle PM2.5 reached levels 11 times higher than World Health Organization recommendations. People in the region have experienced an uptick in cases of asthma, pneumonia, and sinusitis. Poor air quality also impacts wildlife in similar ways.

We are reaching a tipping point where species will either find new—less hospitable—territories or become extinct, and ecosystems will collapse.
Help IFAW protect animals around the world

What we’ve learned from two orphaned anteaters ​

Although this year’s fires are horrific, they’re not completely unprecedented. In 2020, fires burned through 30% (approximately 4.5 million hectares) of the Pantanal, killing millions of animals. Brazil’s iconic giant anteaters were badly affected.

After the fires, we supported Tamandua Institute to establish the Orphans of Fire project and rescue six young anteaters whose mothers had died in the fires. The team has now rehabilitated and released two of those pups back into the wild with GPS harnesses so we can track them and learn more about the challenges they face.

Post-release monitoring (aka telemetry) is a regular practice IFAW performs on rehabilitated animals around the world, like elephants in Zambia and raptors in China. It’s critical to understand where these animals are going because, if those areas are higher risk, it can influence our work, our policies, and our solutions.

Our experience of releasing Tupã and Venus, two orphaned anteaters, shows exactly why this kind of monitoring is vital.

Tupã left the safety of his enclosure in 2021 as the youngest known giant anteater to be released back into the wild after being rehabilitated. He had been placed in a semi-enclosed environment so he could safely explore and leave when he felt ready. When he finally ventured out, it was with an armadillo friend.

In the three years since then, he has thrived in the wild.

Why working with communities is vital ​

The other released anteater, Venus, sadly became a stark reminder that we don’t release wildlife into pristine environments free from dangers; any animal we release still faces threats. Venus was doing incredibly well for a while, but then her GPS showed that she hadn’t moved for an unusually long time. She was found dead on a ranch.

We don’t think it was a malicious killing. Her body was intact, so she wasn’t killed for her hair, hide, or meat—although anteaters are sometimes hunted for their claws, for food, or so their skin can be turned into equestrian equipment.

We believe her death was a case of human–wildlife conflict. Giant anteaters are big animals with big claws. They generally avoid people and conflict, but they can look scary if they’re cornered. You can understand why someone might perceive them as a threat.

Venus is a symbol of the threats anteaters face on a day-to-day basis. Her death highlights why we need to educate people about what to do if you see an anteater and why they’re so important.

We are all part of an intricate system ​

All these problems are interconnected. Human–wildlife conflict is worsened by habitat loss. As more land is burned, turned from forest to savannah, or destroyed by the effects of climate change, more wildlife look for safety in heavily populated areas. That’s why it’s so important that IFAW prepares for disasters, educates communities, and advocates for governments to implement policies that protect habitats.

Often, the poorest communities are the ones living closest to nature and bordering protected areas. They are just trying to survive. IFAW believes these communities are integral and essential to conservation. We can’t fully protect the wildlife living around them unless we ask ourselves how we can help them via social empowerment.

Many people who live at a distance from wildlife have divorced themselves from being a species within the intricate ecosystem on which we depend for our survival. The pandemics we’ve recently experienced—and that will likely become more prevalent—are one example of our ecosystem’s decline. A healthy system mitigates disease.

Wildlife is a critical part of our ecosystem. Our habitats rely heavily on animals to engineer those environments, such as through seed dispersal. Plants don’t exist without animals, and vice versa—so we won’t exist without them either. Wild animals also play a crucial role in carbon sequestration, the capture and storage of carbon from the atmosphere, which mitigates climate change.

Even as humans harm the natural environments on which we depend, nature finds ways to limit the damage for itself and for us.

https://www.ifaw.org/international/people/opinions/brazils-fires-wake-up-call-climate-change-human-destruction-nature​

 

[LeonardoBjj]

South America surpasses record for fires​

By Jake Spring and Stefanie Eschenbacher

• Summary

• Over 346,000 fire hotspots recorded in South America this year, surpassing 2007 record

• Brazil and Bolivia deploy thousands of firefighters, struggle against extreme weather

• Smoke from fires darkens skies, worsens air quality in cities like Sao Paulo and La Paz

SAO PAULO, Sept 12 (Reuters) - South America is being ravaged by fire from Brazil's Amazon rainforest through the world's largest wetlands to dry forests in Bolivia, breaking a previous record for the number of blazes seen in a year up to Sept. 11.

Satellite data analyzed by Brazil's space research agency Inpe has registered 346,112 fire hotspots so far this year in all 13 countries of South America, topping the earlier 2007 record of 345,322 hotspots in a data series that goes back to 1998

A Reuters photographer traveling in the heart of Brazil's Amazon this week witnessed massive fires burning in vegetation along roadways, blackening the landscape and leaving trees like burned matchsticks.

Smoke billowing from the Brazilian fires has darkened the skies above cities like Sao Paulo, feeding into a corridor of wildfire smoke, opens new tab seen from space stretching diagonally across the continent from Colombia in the northwest to Uruguay in the southeast.

Brazil
and Bolivia have dispatched thousands of firefighters to attempt to control the blazes, but remain mostly at the mercy of extreme weather fueling the fires.

Scientists say that while most fires are set by humans, the recent hot and dry conditions being driven by climate change are helping the fires spread more quickly. South America has been hit by a series of heatwaves since last year.

"We never had winter," said Karla Longo, an air quality researcher at Inpe, of the weather in Sao Paulo in recent months. "It's absurd."

Despite still being winter in the Southern Hemisphere, high temperatures in Sao Paulo have held at over 32 degrees Celsius (90 degrees Fahrenheit) since Saturday.

Hundreds of people marched in Bolivia's highland, political capital La Paz to demand action against the fires, holding banners and placards saying "Bolivia in flames" and "For cleaner air stop burning."

"Please realize what is really happening in the country, we have lost millions of hectares," said Fernanda Negron, an animal rights activist in the protest. "Millions of animals have been burned to death."

In Brazil, a drought that began last year has become the worst on record, according to national disaster monitoring agency Cemaden.
"In general, the 2023-2024 drought is the most intense, long-lasting in some regions and extensive in recent history, at least in the data since 1950," said Ana Paula Cunha, a drought researcher with Cemaden.
The greatest number of fires this month is in Brazil and Bolivia, followed by Peru, Argentina and Paraguay, according to Inpe data. Unusually intense fires that hit Venezuela, Guyana and Colombia earlier in the year contributed to the record but have largely subsided.

Fire from deforestation in the Amazon create particularly intense smoke because of the density of the vegetation burning, Longo said.

"The sensation you get flying next to one of these plumes is like that of an atomic mushroom cloud,"
said Longo of Inpe.

Roughly 9 million sq km (3.5 million sq miles) of South America have been covered in smoke at times, more than half of the continent, she said.

Sao Paulo, the most populous city in the Western Hemisphere, earlier this week had the worst air quality globally, higher than famous pollution hotspots like China and India, according to website IQAir.com. Bolivia's capital of La Paz was similarly blanketed in smoke.

Exposure to the smoke will drive up the number of people seeking hospital treatment for respiratory issues and may cause thousands of premature deaths, Longo said.

Inhaling wildfire smoke contributes to an average 12,000 early deaths a year in South America, according to a 2023 study, opens new tab in the academic journal Environmental Research: Health.

September is typically the peak month for fires in South America. It's unclear whether the continent will continue to have high numbers of fires this year.

While rain is forecast next week for Brazil's center south, where Sao Paulo is located, drought conditions are expected to continue through October in Brazil's northern Amazon region and center-west agricultural region.

https://www.reuters.com/world/ameri...th-america-surpasses-record-fires-2024-09-12/

 

[BlankaPresident]

This is fine.

 

[no fat chicks]

Expect more of this sadly

 

[LeonardoBjj]

This is fine.

- I've been sick for almost 3 weeks. Never smoked in my life. Now i am using a asma medicine. What you think about the silcence of our idiot celebrities?

Agricultural engineer arrested for causing fires in Sorriso(Smile)

According to the Civil Police, the man caused several fires in the city.

An agricultural engineer, identified as D. V., was arrested for setting fire to a rural property, which started several fires in the municipality of Sorriso (410 km from Cuiabá). He was arrested on Monday (09) and released on Tuesday (10), after undergoing a custody hearing, and was released from paying R$15,000 in bail after the public defender argued that he is unemployed.

As stated in the process, a security camera helped identify that he set fire to a forested area, which generated a large fire, destroying crops and putting the lives of people and animals at risk.

The crime took place last Sunday afternoon (08) near a company in the city. In the images, it is possible to see the man driving by in a white car, model Chevrolet Ônix, and setting the vegetation on fire. Furthermore, around five witnesses claimed to have seen the car at the scene shortly before the fire started.

According to the Civil Police, he was arrested red-handed in front of his house, with the help of the Military Police. The engineer was charged with the crime of intentional arson, which carries a sentence of 3 to 6 years in prison.

After the arrest, the police found instruments, weapons, objects and papers that proved the criminal act. During investigations, the police found several places where fires had occurred. During interrogation, he pleaded not guilty and then remained silent.

The custody hearing was held on Tuesday morning, virtually. Initially, the judge on duty in the District of Sorriso, Emanuelle Chiaradia Navarro Mano, granted provisional release with bail set at R$15,000.

“Agronomist, that is, a professional dedicated to agriculture and has specific knowledge about plants, animals, soils, climate and related technologies. This makes your behavior much more reprehensible. Furthermore, the country is experiencing a period of extreme drought and fires in practically all states, with Mato Grosso being the state that has suffered the most from fires, and the Judiciary cannot be lenient with people who, despite the situation, still set fires. fire on purpose”, says an excerpt from the decision.

The judge attached prints of a Google search, which reveals that Mato Grosso is at the top of the ranking of fire hotspots. In addition to bail, the judge ordered him to fulfill a series of obligations, such as not getting involved in new crimes, attending all acts of the process, reporting any change of address or telephone number and proving his address and work within 10 days.

However, the perpetrator of the crime did not present a lawyer and had to be represented by a public defender, who claimed that the engineer is unemployed, separated from his wife and that his ex is the one paying the bills for him and the son they have in common. As proof, he attached a Whatsapp printout with messages from his ex-wife stating that she is the one paying his expenses.

The defender also claimed that the man was arrested only because he was poor and asked for provisional release and bail exemption.

Judge Giselda Regina Sobreira de Oliveira Andrade, from the 2nd Criminal Court of Sorriso, accepted the defender's request and released the perpetrator of the fires without the need to pay bail, maintaining only the other established obligations.

Other arrests

In addition to this case, the Civil Police have already arrested 16 people for allegedly causing fires in areas of crops, pastures, forests or forests, between January 1st and September 9th of this year.

The arrests took place in Jaciara, Cuiabá, Alta Floresta, Alto Araguaia, Diamantino, Marcelândia, Nortelândia, Nova Monte Verde, Tapurah, Primavera do Leste and Rondonópolis.

Currently, the Fire Department operates throughout the state combating more than a thousand fires. The general commander of the Fire Department, Flávio Gledson Vieira, warns of the damage that fires can cause.

“Fires harm not only the environment, but also people’s health. Firefighters are overworked and work hard in the field, and many of the demands met are caused by human action. We are receiving many reports of these crimes and security agencies are arriving to identify these people. We ask for the population's collaboration to be careful and avoid any type of fire, especially at this time of year when we are going through this period of severe drought”, said the commander.

If there is any sign of a fire, firefighters recommend reporting it to 193 or 190.

https://www.reportermt.com/policia/...or-provocar-incendios-em-sorriso-video/211745

- Arson should be punished with death. Honestly!

 

[Andy Capp]

- I've been sick for almost 3 weeks. Never smoked in my life. Now i am using a asma medicine. What you think about the silcence of our idiot celebrities?

Agricultural engineer arrested for causing fires in Sorriso(Smile)

According to the Civil Police, the man caused several fires in the city.

An agricultural engineer, identified as D. V., was arrested for setting fire to a rural property, which started several fires in the municipality of Sorriso (410 km from Cuiabá). He was arrested on Monday (09) and released on Tuesday (10), after undergoing a custody hearing, and was released from paying R$15,000 in bail after the public defender argued that he is unemployed.

As stated in the process, a security camera helped identify that he set fire to a forested area, which generated a large fire, destroying crops and putting the lives of people and animals at risk.

The crime took place last Sunday afternoon (08) near a company in the city. In the images, it is possible to see the man driving by in a white car, model Chevrolet Ônix, and setting the vegetation on fire. Furthermore, around five witnesses claimed to have seen the car at the scene shortly before the fire started.

According to the Civil Police, he was arrested red-handed in front of his house, with the help of the Military Police. The engineer was charged with the crime of intentional arson, which carries a sentence of 3 to 6 years in prison.

After the arrest, the police found instruments, weapons, objects and papers that proved the criminal act. During investigations, the police found several places where fires had occurred. During interrogation, he pleaded not guilty and then remained silent.

The custody hearing was held on Tuesday morning, virtually. Initially, the judge on duty in the District of Sorriso, Emanuelle Chiaradia Navarro Mano, granted provisional release with bail set at R$15,000.

“Agronomist, that is, a professional dedicated to agriculture and has specific knowledge about plants, animals, soils, climate and related technologies. This makes your behavior much more reprehensible. Furthermore, the country is experiencing a period of extreme drought and fires in practically all states, with Mato Grosso being the state that has suffered the most from fires, and the Judiciary cannot be lenient with people who, despite the situation, still set fires. fire on purpose”, says an excerpt from the decision.

The judge attached prints of a Google search, which reveals that Mato Grosso is at the top of the ranking of fire hotspots. In addition to bail, the judge ordered him to fulfill a series of obligations, such as not getting involved in new crimes, attending all acts of the process, reporting any change of address or telephone number and proving his address and work within 10 days.

However, the perpetrator of the crime did not present a lawyer and had to be represented by a public defender, who claimed that the engineer is unemployed, separated from his wife and that his ex is the one paying the bills for him and the son they have in common. As proof, he attached a Whatsapp printout with messages from his ex-wife stating that she is the one paying his expenses.

The defender also claimed that the man was arrested only because he was poor and asked for provisional release and bail exemption.

Judge Giselda Regina Sobreira de Oliveira Andrade, from the 2nd Criminal Court of Sorriso, accepted the defender's request and released the perpetrator of the fires without the need to pay bail, maintaining only the other established obligations.

Other arrests

In addition to this case, the Civil Police have already arrested 16 people for allegedly causing fires in areas of crops, pastures, forests or forests, between January 1st and September 9th of this year.

The arrests took place in Jaciara, Cuiabá, Alta Floresta, Alto Araguaia, Diamantino, Marcelândia, Nortelândia, Nova Monte Verde, Tapurah, Primavera do Leste and Rondonópolis.

Currently, the Fire Department operates throughout the state combating more than a thousand fires. The general commander of the Fire Department, Flávio Gledson Vieira, warns of the damage that fires can cause.

“Fires harm not only the environment, but also people’s health. Firefighters are overworked and work hard in the field, and many of the demands met are caused by human action. We are receiving many reports of these crimes and security agencies are arriving to identify these people. We ask for the population's collaboration to be careful and avoid any type of fire, especially at this time of year when we are going through this period of severe drought”, said the commander.

If there is any sign of a fire, firefighters recommend reporting it to 193 or 190.

https://www.reportermt.com/policia/...or-provocar-incendios-em-sorriso-video/211745

- Arson should be punished with death. Honestly!

6 years is not enough of a sentence, that's for sure.

 

[LeonardoBjj]

6 years is not enough of a sentence, that's for sure.

- He will get 2 years at max. Dude killed millions, probably billions of living beings.