And while the fires had been mostly extinguished in San Pedro Columbia, today, they started up again, destroying even more farms.
And putting out the fires is a community effort - which includes kids.
One farmer spoke to our colleagues at PGTV about the extent of his loss, and three young firefighters explained how they help to contain the blaze.
Farmer
"And this is a big, big loss for me because I depend on my cacao, you know, to sustain myself."
Reporter
"Yeah, and how many trees do you think you have lost here?"
Farmer
"Man, like over 5,000 trees or whatever."
Reporter
"Over 5,000 cacao trees. And, you know, what else do you grow? Do you just grow cacao? Or what other losses have you..."
Farmer
"Well, you know, mostly cacao and banana and plantain."
Reporter "You take those to the market at PG."
Farmer
"Yeah."
Reporter
"So you foresee, I know that Senovia farm is next to you. You have the Maya Mountain research farm. Are all these farms being affected?"
Farmer
"Yeah, man, nearly everybody."
Reporter
"So what would you like to say to the government?"
Farmer
"Well, I would like to ask the government if we could get some kind of help."
Reporter
"What are you guys going to do to stop this fire?"
Villagers
"We're going to make a fire pass so the fire can go no more so we can get the water. Then we can go help to cut off the fire."
The blaze continues in the Columbia Forest Reserve, and there are also fires within the Pine Ridge Forest Reserve.
And going to the west - where there are also forests bringing in Pine Ridge, we have pictures from the staff of The Hummingbird Group which managed to ring the fire in Maya Mountain Forest Reserve. It burned itself out last night. The team also saved a kinkajou from certain death.
