Overview
- Authorities reported 100% containment after more than a week of operations that followed days at roughly 85% containment.
- Provincial data estimate about 11,970–12,000 hectares burned with dozens of homes destroyed and significant damage to infrastructure and forests.
- Over 650 responders, eight aircraft, heavy machinery and Army helicopters supported a coordinated effort with reinforcements from Neuquén, Río Negro, Córdoba and Santiago del Estero.
- Epuyén’s council declared a municipal state of catastrophe to speed assistance and reconstruction for affected residents.
- Prosecutors say evidence points to deliberate ignition with fuel detected at the origin site, though no arrests have been made as monitoring continues due to drought-driven reactivation risk.