“Everything is burning,” says Pedro as he gets out of his small plane in a hangar at Carrasco International Airport to refuel. It’s 4 p.m. and the heat doesn’t let up despite the 31 kilometers per hour wind blowing from the east. This is the worst drought ever registered in La Plata River region, where Uruguay
Quickly, the pilot and two assistants waiting for him in the hangar refuel his small two-seater single-engine plane before leaving for the third and last flight of the day, which covers a few thousand kilometers over the southeast of the country in search of fire outbreaks along a route determined by the Forest Fire Protection Operation. Read the full story in Montevideo Portal (Uruguay).
