With the aim of strengthening technical work regarding the prevention and investigation of forest fires, the National Forestry Corporation (Conaf) and the Carabineros Criminalistics Laboratory (Labocar) held a coordination meeting ahead of the season of highest risk of emergencies due to wildfires in the Ñuble region.
The activity took place this Friday, August 14, at the Conaf Vivero de Álamos Base, with the presence of regional heads of the Corporation, officials from the Forest Fire Protection Department, and the specialized team of the uniformed police. The main focus was on standardizing work methodologies for the development of preventive actions and unifying criteria for determining the causes of wildfires.
During the meeting, Conaf professionals shared their technical analysis matrices regarding fire behavior. For their part, Labocar personnel presented the legal and scientific requirements necessary for the evidence collected to be decisive in judicial proceedings. This alliance seeks to achieve faster, more robust, and coordinated expert reports.
The director of Conaf Ñuble, Domingo González Zúñiga, stated that "determining with precision the causes and origin of the fire is what allows us to redefine prevention strategies and reduce risks. Each successful expert report gives us key information to know where, how, and why fires start, allowing us to design much more effective educational campaigns and preventive patrols to anticipate the emergency and protect the region."
He added that "the goal is for both teams to speak the same technical language in the field to accurately identify the origin of the fire, considering that this information also has significant value in prosecution processes. This is how we will continue advancing in this collaborative work, also integrating the PDI and the Public Prosecutor's Office."
For his part, Freddy Martínez Vera, head of the Forest Fire Prevention Section of Conaf Ñuble, stated that "we have analyzed examples of fires from last season, especially the most significant ones, where we have seen and analyzed the causality parameters in line with the standardization of expert report protocols between our analysis and diagnosis professionals (UAD) and police experts."
Finally, Captain Claudio Vásquez Oporto, head of Labocar Ñuble, valued the workspace and the transfer of forestry knowledge. "For Carabineros, it is very important to strengthen this strategic alliance with Conaf, because it allows us to combine the Corporation's field experience with our criminalistics methodology. This is why we requested this meeting, understanding that the period of highest fire risk is coming, to move forward on prevention and mitigation measures, as well as common guidelines to optimize the collection of scientific evidence in rural and forested areas."
At the end of the day, both institutions agreed to undertake a work schedule and coordination of practical exercises before the start of the critical fire season.
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