🔴 El DESGARRADOR TESTIMONIO de un vecino que PERDIÓ TODO en los incendios de Epuyén

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Un incendio ha arrasado con más de 2000 hectáreas, equivalente a la superficie de toda la capital federal, afectando áreas urbanas y destruyendo viviendas y escuelas en Epuyén. Aunque las casas están ahora a salvo, el fuego sigue activo. Las autoridades investigan posibles causas intencionales, mientras los residentes enfrentan pérdidas materiales significativas.  #AméricaNoticias

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00:00It is a beautiful, paradisiacal place, where in summer is when more people go to know.

00:07However, this time there was a fire, a fire that has already burned the surface equivalent to the entire federal capital.

00:17Imagine, there are more than 2,000 hectares on fire, and unlike what happened in other fires,

00:24these fires were very close to the urban axis.

00:30They burned houses, they burned schools.

00:32Luckily, the houses are safe, but the fire continues.

00:37What we are seeing is the disaster that the image of the burned bicycle generated,

00:44which could not be removed.

00:45People had to leave, in many cases with their clothes on, and the testimonies are dramatic.

00:51With just grabbing the documents, a little clothes and leaving.

00:56And they were not allowed to return to the houses until the authorities allowed it.

01:03There in Nepuyen is Karla Chiarandini.

01:05Karla, who are you with?

01:09Hello, Rolando.

01:10Good afternoon.

01:11I am here, precisely in the province of Chubut, in Nepuyen, as you said.

01:16I am here next to Timo Walder, who is one of the neighbors of ...

01:22Let's see, from years ago, you can say, as we said, 30 years ago.

01:26Timo, you are here, approximately.

01:29He is not only a neighbor who has suffered the damage of losing one of his houses,

01:34but he is also someone who was a witness of where this first fire started, apparently.

01:43Rolando is listening to you.

01:44How are you, Timo?

01:45How did you live these moments?

01:50Well, it is difficult to describe what one feels in those moments,

01:54because everything happens so fast that I did not ...

01:57I mean, I kept very cold, really, and I tried to do things as best I could.

02:01Everything turned out well, but while I was in one place, my house was on fire.

02:07And I really didn't realize it.

02:09How did you realize this?

02:10Tell me where you were.

02:12I was where you were saying, where the fire started,

02:16by a call from a friend who thought his mother's house was on fire.

02:20I went there to help.

02:23I arrived and it wasn't starting yet, it was just starting.

02:28I installed hoses and then a motorbike pump.

02:32And when I saw that it was okay, I left.

02:35I wanted to come home to reassure the family.

02:38And when I left the place, I just thought about the house that was on fire.

02:44Well, I said, well, I'm going to go see.

02:46I was at least a thousand meters from where I was.

02:51And in those 20 minutes that I had in the other house,

02:54mine had already burned.

02:57And the fire advanced many more meters, even, and ended up ...

03:03So you didn't take care of yourself for 20 minutes, Timo?

03:07You didn't take care of yourself for 20 minutes to go help a neighbor and your house burned down?

03:14You can say that, yes.

03:16You can say that, yes.

03:17Likewise, I mean it, I think it was also my luck.

03:22Because one, out there wanting to defend his own,

03:27I think I would have gotten into a place that was not limited.

03:31The fire passed very quickly.

03:33I don't think there is a way to do anything.

03:36And I was on the back side, in a safe place.

03:40And well, what happened happened, but it is material damage, but we are all good.

03:45Timo, there we are watching images of how your house turned out.

03:48Just now Rolando mentioned a bicycle, different furniture,

03:52but it consumed absolutely everything, the fire.

03:55Because that is also what we have to tell, that people live, right?

03:59That they end up in this situation.

04:01Because you are very close to the forest.

04:03It is a new phenomenon that has begun to occur in recent years,

04:06of houses that instead of being in rural areas,

04:09but more urbanized in some way,

04:11they are in the middle of the forest and are very exposed.

04:17Yes, the area is like that.

04:21It is not that one gets into the wrong place, but well...

04:25No, no, it's fine, everything for that, of course.

04:26That forest had many years.

04:29Yes, yes.

04:32When these bad things happen, well, there is nothing to do.

04:38Timo, when you say bad things, what do you mean?

04:42Because today the governor of Chubut, Nacho Torres,

04:45spoke of two fires that occurred simultaneously in different places

04:52and that this caught the attention and is being investigated,

04:54if it has not been intentional, which is very common, on the other hand,

04:58in forest fires.

05:00What is the suspicion?

05:04Yes, the suspicion is there.

05:07I mean, there were three initial hypotheses.

05:11One could be lightning, which was not there.

05:14I mean, it was a day of sun and wind.

05:17The other, a cable that in the place that I saw, there is not.

05:23The fire came from a place where...

05:26I mean, I know there are no cables.

05:28You were there, in that same place, right?

05:30Yes, I was, I mean, not in the precise place, but very close,

05:35because, well, I went to build that house.

05:37And then the fire began to get closer and closer

05:40and ended up passing by the side of the house

05:42and began to advance towards school number 9,

05:45which ended up affecting it, but, well, luckily it ended up burning.

05:49Today it also took us to visit Timo the place

05:53and the beginning, where it was, the beginning of this fire.

05:57The police were there.

05:59What they told us is that these hypotheses were handled,

06:02which Timo also tells us,

06:04which are still being investigated, of course,

06:06because, well, the federal prosecutor was also about to arrive,

06:09where they were gathering evidence.

06:12There are no cameras in the place, but there are photos, schedules and witnesses.

06:16Let's wait a little bit, because the one who installed today

06:20the possibility that the fire there in Epuyén was intentional

06:23was the governor of Chubut province himself,

06:26Nacho Torres. Let's listen to him.

06:29I don't want to make a futurology about what the experts are going to give,

06:33but it does catch our attention

06:36that at the same time this fire happened,

06:39there were two fires simultaneously,

06:41one between Belín and another in Golondrina.

06:43Last year, when we denounced a take

06:47in the Los Alerces National Park as a protest,

06:50two fires were intentionally initiated

06:55with a very precarious but effective method.

06:58It is a candle on toilet paper with fuel

07:02in places of difficult access

07:04and just on the days when the climate was going to be more hostile.

07:09That's why the investigations are being done now,

07:13quickly, even if the fire is active,

07:16to deal quickly with those responsible.

07:21Well, notice that the governor gives the hypothesis

07:23even of a method to start a fire,

07:26which is a candle with a roll of toilet paper.

07:29This is what the governor, Nacho Torres, told you earlier, Carla.

07:36Exactly, yes, the governor raised this to us,

07:38which also caught our attention.

07:42And that's why we were able to go to the place,

07:47also talk to the police.

07:49Well, as I was just telling you,

07:51we are finishing the tests.

07:53There are no cameras in the place.

07:55Yes, talk to the neighbors.

07:57And why can someone want to start a fire in a forest?

08:07The truth is that I don't understand it, I don't know.

08:13It destroyed the existence of at least 50 families

08:18who lost their homes.

08:20It has no common sense.

08:23But there is no real estate speculation, I don't know.

08:26Because in other places, sometimes they start a fire

08:28because later they say, well, it burned down,

08:30now let's put a neighborhood.

08:34I don't know, I don't want to give my opinion on that.

08:39And now how do you rebuild your house, Timo?

08:45Yes, we'll see. The house is insured.

08:49Luckily, right?

08:51Yes, it's insured.

08:54Of course. Are you excited?

08:56I noticed you today that we were also touring.

08:59Yes, it's a mix of everything.

09:01On the one hand, you are happy to be well.

09:03On the other hand, you see the house and say, well ...

09:06Do you have children? Do you have a partner?

09:09Where are the others?

09:11Yes, yes, yes.

09:13I mean, we didn't live in that house.

09:16That house was in a friend of ours with her five-year-old daughter.

09:21The house was in that girl's house.

09:24Not at this time.

09:26They went to take clothes from our boys to her

09:30so that she has something to wear.

09:32They left with the clothes on, right?

09:34What did they tell you when they came to see you?

09:37And they, I mean, the mother was very emotional.

09:41And the little girl didn't understand the situation.

09:46I mean, they wanted to come to another town to sleep.

09:50And the little girl was, let's say, happy that they were going.

09:53She said, let's go to the Bolsón because we stayed in this house.

09:56Of course.

09:57Luckily.

09:58Luckily, so they can tell us, right?

10:01Carla, thank you very much for this report.

10:06Also thanks to Timo.

10:07And remember that there are several campaigns to try

10:12that just when it is known that it is indeed an intentional fire,

10:19this is classified as a criminal offense.

10:22There is not in our regime a possibility to classify

10:27precisely as a criminal offense the intentional fire.

10:30There are ravages.

10:31There are other ways to name it.

10:34But it always goes away.

10:35It always goes away.

10:36The investigations never reach a good port.

10:39They are not carried out efficiently.

10:42And it never happens to the responsible.

10:45And when it happens to the responsible, it is as if nothing happened.

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