Fires out of control in Argentina

The past few months have been crucial in fighting against forest fires in Argentina. Fundación Bomberos focuses its efforts on creating a safer and more resilient community. It promotes good safety practices with volunteer firefighters from all over the country. It carries out awareness campaigns to prevent risks in the community. 

We act as a bridge of collaboration between the community and firefighters regarding the culture of prevention. The “Bridges of prevention” campaign was launched in 2021 and met the following objectives: 

• Make the population aware of forest fires in Argentina. 
• Promote good practices for fire prevention throughout the country. 
• Generate resources to support the work of volunteer firefighters during forest fires. 

We still distribute forestry equipment to those affected by the fires in the province of Corrientes. At the same time, a survey and follow-up of the areas involved in the Provinces of Buenos Aires and Entre Ríos by the outbreaks initiated in the Delta and other regions are being carried out. 

We are proud to announce the campaign has managed to assist more than 1,500 firefighters, estimating a distribution in 2022 of more than 5,700 new forestry tools to equip firefighters. 

Our team keeps working hard to meet our goals and get volunteer firefighters the necessary resources, as we always have. In fact, on July 20th, 2022, Fundación Bomberos de Argentina celebrated a decade of work. 

Besides the Bridges of Prevention Campaign, another campaign was launched called “Youth Behind the Wheel”. It is a meeting on road safety aimed at adolescents to create ambassadors of good traffic practices to collaborate with reducing accidents and developing a safer society.  Training is given by firefighters with experience in traffic accidents (as they are part of the services that are called to assist people who are victims of such accidents). 

All these efforts wouldn´t have been possible without your collaboration. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts and hope to keep working together. There´s still much to do to prevent fires and control future outbreaks.  

The Mensajeros Family. 

Fundación Bomberos Argentina focuses its efforts on creating a safer and more resilient community. Together with volunteer firefighters from all over the country, it promotes safety practices and carries out awareness campaigns to prevent risks in the community.

Thanks to the work we have put in our last Campaign, Fundación Bomberos has been able to provide assistance to 48 associations of Volunteer Firefighters of the province of Corrientes and continue to multiply equipment collaboration in the following provinces that have also been affected by forest fires: Córdoba, Tucumán, Entre Ríos, Buenos Aires, Catamarca, Chaco, and San Luis.

As part of the Heroes of Fundación Bomberos Program, and with support provided by Ministerio de Salud de la Nación, we designed the initiative "We all have a Hero in our Blood”. It´s main goal was to promote regular voluntary blood donation by carrying out external blood collections located in the different barracks throughout the country.

On February 9^th, 2022, Volunteer Firefighters from Cerrito (Entre Ríos) carried out the campaign together with Fundación Bomberos Argentina. The collection of blood was held in the Mirna Teresita Perottino Cultural Hall, in Plaza Las Colonias. We are pleased to announce more than 30 donors participated in the initiative.

Within the framework of the annual meeting of the Foundation's Board of Directors, the renewal of authorities was carried out. As always, they have assumed the responsibility of maintaining and promoting hard work and have committed to respecting our fundamental values.

It is with pure conviction that we continue to say our commitment and devotion have saved lives and will continue to do so.

All this progress would not be possible without your generous and thoughtful support. Thanks to you, we continue to build our foundation stronger and stronger to carry out our project and protect people´s homes.

From the bottom of our hearts: thank you.

Mensajeros de la Paz’s Team.