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And during the handing over ceremony, the first fire of this season broke out in an area near the Belize Zoo. It was quickly extinguished and there was no infrastructural damage. And the fact that this fire came so late in the season indicates that this year's one won't be as fiery as last year's. WCS' Maya Forest Corridor Site Manager told us more.
Yahaira Urbina, Maya Forest Corridor Site Manager, WCS
"This fire season as you may think, it's a bit wet, as we've seen. Usually we start to see fires since February and in earlier years you would see fire in January so they're predicting a little bit more wet fire season but we have to be alert as we saw this morning, we had our first fire for this season, we manage to extinguish it during this handover so we're hoping that it is not as active as last year but still we do promote for everyone to be vigilant in case a fire starts."
Courtney Menzies:
"The fire this morning was a manmade one?"
Yahaira Urbina, Maya Forest Corridor Site Manager, WCS
"So that's what we're going to do after this, we're going to do a proper map up and investigate if it was man-made or if it was natural and all of those things so investigations need to happen right now. It is extinguished but we need to do our map up if you say what is a map up it's when we go into the area and making sure that everything is extinguished and seeing evidence if it was lit or what happened there."
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