Overview
- Two active fires in Arequipa — one in Sogay (Yarabamba) and another in Pinchollo (Cabanaconde) — are burning native grasslands while local brigades, municipal serenazgo and community members use cisterns and ground crews to contain them.
- Authorities say there are no reported deaths or smoke-related injuries in the Arequipa incidents and COER Arequipa continues to monitor fire behavior from regional operations centers.
- COER and municipal risk offices have started peritajes in the field to complete EDAN forms, the Evaluación de Daños y Análisis de Necesidades used to quantify losses and request further support.
- Cusco officials have declared 'alerta máxima' after roughly ten recent fires, and firefighters report that steep, hard-to-access terrain is complicating suppression efforts, regional brigades said.
- The Instituto Geofísico and Senamhi link the spike in fires to prolonged drought and common on-farm burning, and Senamhi warns of very-high fire risk in parts of Cajamarca; officials warn that pasture loss threatens rural livelihoods and will guide possible regional aid requests.