A forest fire in the municipality of Chuymay in Peruvian Ayacucho has requested three lives and caused major devastation. Terre Des Hommes has been working with projects in the region for many years. A total of 165 families are affected by the disaster.

Founded by the wind and favors the continued drought and spread the fire quickly and raged for five days. Houses, orchards, pastures, house and wild animals fell to the flames as well as victims as well as food supplies or field tools. The water supply is also affected because the irrigation pipes from PVC did not stand up to the fire. Three towns are currently completely cut off from the water supply.

Terre Des Hommes has initiated emergency aid measures. The families concerned receive staple foods to meet their needs for three months. In addition Terre Des Hommes supports people in repairing their fields again and restoring the irrigation system. So far, the municipalities have neither emergency plans nor devices for fire fighting. Therefore, in a first step, they will be trained in fire fighting and preventive measures in a first step in order to be better armed against fire -fitting in the future.