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Burned area in Federal District in eight months of 2016 amounts to 15 'Aguas Claras' Fire consumed a total of 126.7 square kilometers of savannah.
01/10/2016 18h02 - 18h02 Updated 10/01/2016
Burned area in Federal District in eight months of 2016 amounts to 15 'Aguas Claras'
Fire consumed a total of 126.7 square kilometers of savannah.
Area corresponds to 126,000 football fields; 1,528 occurrences were made.
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Fire reached savannah area near the streets 13:17 West Lake on the morning of Tuesday (13) (Photo: Fire Department / Handout)
Fire reached savannah area near the streets 13:17 West Lake (13) (Photo: Fire Department / Handout)
The burned area in the Federal District in eight months of 2016 is equivalent to 15 times the size of Aguas Claras, DF region. In all, they were burned 126.7 square kilometers, which can be translated into 126,000 football fields, over 1,528 instances of fire - is the lowest occurrences of numbers since 2011.
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In 2016, the Federal District went through two periods of drought. Taken together, give the total of 120 days without rainfall: from 19 May to 22 August (96 days) and from 29 August to 22 September (24 days) there was no rain in the DF.
According to the coordinator of the Plan for the Prevention and Combat of Forest Fires, Carolina Schubart, the Department of the Environment, the Federal District Government has been working on actions to strengthen awareness campaigns and training of volunteers.
According to Carolina, "the amount of burned due to a different climatic factor this year [in 2016]." The GDF spent R $ 4 million in the production of preventive educational material to fire.
The meteorologist Ingrid Peixoto, the National Institute of Meteorology, said the drought can be explained by El Niño, a climate phenomenon that involves the unusual warming of the surface and subsurface of the Equatorial Pacific Ocean. In 2016, El Niño was one of the most intense since 1950, when the record of the phenomenon began to be made.
Fire fighting fire in an area close to the Digital TV Tower, in the Federal District, on Saturday (23) (Photo: Fire Department / Handout)
Fire fighting fire in an area close to the Digital TV Tower in Federal District (Photo: Fire Department / Handout)
"It was a mass of atmospheric blocking hot air and dry which had its main concentration in the Midwest and expanded to 80% of the country." According to the meteorologist, the phenomenon lasted from 2014 to 2016, which would justify lifting temperature, drought and atypical rains since.
In 2015, the total area burned was close to 2016, with 126.9 square kilometers set on fire. However, last year, the number of hits was more than three times higher, with 5,178 called open fire. The number of occurrences in 2015 has been higher than in the previous four years (2011-2014).
Already in 2014, a total of 74.9 square kilometers were burned in 3,837 fires. In 2013, the fire consumed 79.6 square kilometers of areas in 4,132 occurrences. Already in 2012, the fires reached 82.2 square kilometers in 5,036 occurrences.
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Prof. David Silva Fagundes Contact: 55 (061) 98453-0308
Environmentalist - Environmental Educator - Water Resources Manager
Coordinator of the International Youth Climate Conference - COY 22 in Brazil
President of Agenda 21 Wansbeck location
Regional Coordinator of the Millennium Development Goals - North West
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