Corpoguajira recommends that the department's emergency authorities strengthen contingency plans to prevent and attend to forest fires that may occur in the mountainous systems of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and Serranía del Perijá, as part of the effects caused by the El Niño Phenomenon.

To avoid such environmental accidents, the Corporation also urges the community in general to make an adequate disposal of garbage, Do not throw the floor matches, butts, cigarettes or burning objects; papers, cans, Plastics, glass or any type of waste or materials capable of causing a fire. Under no circumstances should a fire in the field.

Please have the following emergency numbers: Red Cross: 7274693, 3102610228, 132 Civil defense: 7273353, 144. Firefighters: 119. Prevention and Attention to Disasters: 3176682497, 3114145114, 3176682497, 3114145114. Corpoguajira: 3106581142, 3016008358 and 3185858383.

A wildfire, It arises because solar heat causes dehydration in plants, which recover the water lost from the substrate. However, when soil moisture drops to a level below 30%, leaves are unable to obtain water from the soil, dabbing slowly. This process causes the emission to atmosphere of ethylene, a present highly combustible vegetation and chemical. It takes place then a double phenomenon: both plants and the air around them become highly flammable, so the risk of fire is multiplied. If these conditions in periods of high temperatures and strong winds moderate sum, the possibility that a spark causes a fire, It becomes significant.