The forest Is much more than wood
Title - Affenwelt / Appears as "MonkeyWorld" on "Various - The Electric Institute"
Label - NWAQ
Release Date - Jun 2008
Genre - Techno, IDM
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"What if the worst day in the life of these people was the best business day in the lives of others?"
Ana Leal - Reporter
"We had to stay there and we thought we were dying there.
No one showed up."
Five days ago I woke up with a bad insight. My worst fears are happening. A giant uncontrollable fire is devouring everything around, fed by eucalyptus trees, through dry, hot weather and random angry winds. Many have lost everything, others have been injured. Animals roam scared. Others are consumed by the fire. It's a real Dantesque hell. My heart is tighter than ever. Virtually all communications with Monchique are cut off, there is no fixed telephone, and most mobile networks do not work. I know nothing about my friends that live there. The roads are cut, no one enters no one gets out. A part of us dies with the fire. The fire advances towards my town. Five days ago I woke up with a bad insight, today I woke up with a terrible smell of the burnt forest, and the sound of trees being cut. The intensity and change of direction of the wind is making it difficult to fight the fire. People can not help in the firefight because the police will not allow it. There was this lady saying in the news that the police evacuated her and her family, but her husband and son managed to come back and saved the house, otherwise, it would burn.
The fire in Monchique, Faro district, broke out last Friday, has already provoked at least 29 injuries and forced the evacuation of several population clusters and a hotel unit.
The population is revolted because everything indicates that there is a total disorganization. There are no sufficient means of combat the fire, forestry producers in the Western Algarve say they have been waiting months for the Nature Conservation Institute's approval of a fire prevention and control plan that covers the area where the flames started in Monchique.
"It's all wrapped up in the bureaucracy, they only ask us questions about caprine wool and nothing progresses," said the association's president representing some 500 forestry producers in the Algarve's Barlavento.
"It's a stupid and endless bureaucratic process. They seem to do it on purpose not to advance."
The Secretary of State for Civil Protection does not respond to criticism from the Association of Professional Firefighters and Producers of the Eastern Algarve. Artur Neves reiterates that the priority is to fight the flames and protect people and calls for collaboration with the authorities.
All the news that has been in the news is populated by lies and expectation. The locals say that there is a great deal of disorganization and that no one can reach a consensus on how to act. The so-called "theater of operations" is literally a theater. Meanwhile, the government continues to allow private companies to continue to reforest Portugal with eucalyptus trees... The forest is much more than wood!
Photos and quotations by Sic Noticias
Hurt Cat and dog by Rescue Volunteers - Joao Ferreira