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One of the most effective ways to fight the fires was from above, using water dispensed from an Astrum helicopter.
But, it's also super costly to use that approach.
Yesterday the Prime Minister said they have to find better way to prevent the fires rather than fighting them from the air:
John Briceno, Prime Minister
"We are working on that and he is working on a new budget despite everything I mean, we cannot let the best be the enemy of the good. In the sense that this issue about air support and air support. guys, we don't even own a helicopter and for us to be able to stay. We are going to own a helicopter. Let's be real let's be realistic what we are looking at is how we can reorganize this whole firefighting, forest fires we are going to fight them, and it has been from top to bottom and one of the ideas that, I always forget this young name, a highly qualified young man who studied the United States on firefighting he is in an NGO. I think he is the deputy chairman of APAMO and what he is saying we need to start from the community level to start up the community level to give them some sort of training and even some equipment so that some instance we can contain it. We also need to start to look at control burning something that has not been done. That you burn your bush and forest not when it is hot but when it is still damp a little bit so you can get rid of the debris so that when there is a fire, it is not going to be huge and as destructive as what it was. We have to forget about looking at the movies and all kind of helicopters and having 1000 people or you know, we have to work with what we have and I am a thank publicly, the BDF who were out there for many many days helping us to fight these fires and now we are looking at the rebuilding process and the minister of agriculture told me yesterday in cabinet they said they are already reaching out to be be able to provide seeds for our farmers so that they can replant and get themselves back on their feet.
