{"id":50721,"date":"2023-03-07T19:24:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T18:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=50721"},"modified":"2024-03-07T00:13:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T23:13:23","slug":"the-images-of-the-spanish-soldiers-of-the-ume-who-have-fought-the-fire-in-chile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/03\/07\/the-images-of-the-spanish-soldiers-of-the-ume-who-have-fought-the-fire-in-chile\/","title":{"rendered":"The images of the Spanish soldiers of the UME who have fought the fire in Chile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of January, a serious wave of forest fires began that devastated central and southern Chile, leaving 26 dead and more than 2,000 injured.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/02\/10\/spanish-soldiers-of-the-ume-manage-to-save-two-children-and-their-mother-in-turkey\/\">Spanish soldiers of the UME manage to save two children and their mother in Turkey<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/02\/12\/the-moving-messages-of-gratitude-from-turkish-citizens-to-the-spanish-soldiers\/\">The moving messages of gratitude from Turkish citizens to the Spanish soldiers<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Spain has a special historical and cultural link with the countries of Latin America, and for this reason <strong>a contingent of 50 Spanish soldiers from the Military Emergency Unit (UME) was sent to Chile <\/strong>. The members of this mission were members of the <strong>UME Headquarters<\/strong>, the First Emergency Intervention Battalion (<strong>BIEM I<\/strong>), the Fifth Emergency Intervention Battalion (<strong>BIEM V<\/strong>) and the UME Transmission Battalion (<strong>BTUME<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>This contingent was mobilized on February 5, two days before the strong earthquakes that devastated Turkey and Syria.<\/strong> The UME also came to the aid of those affected by the earthquakes, and this mission, as well as the great The number of deaths caused by the earthquakes has caused the important mission of the UME in Chile to go unnoticed in the media. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensa.gob.es\/ume\/Noticias\/2023\/03\/Noticias\/regreso_chile.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The UME Operation Chile has ended today with the return of the contingent sent to that country<\/a>, and it is fair to pay attention to the impressive work carried out by these Spanish soldiers in that Hispanic country. <strong>The UME published a video yesterday that summarizes in images this mission and the bonds of friendship that they have created for a month<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u00a1\u00a1HASTA SIEMPRE CHILE!!\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e0QWn7vCwYA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can see below a series of photos of this mission.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52732486059_b71c4b178a_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The boarding of the UME members sent to Chile in a Spanish Air Force Airbus A330 MRTT<\/strong> at the Torrej\u00f3n Air Base, on February 6.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52732486169_dc7814c398_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In addition to personnel, <strong>the UME material necessary for the development of this mission was also embarked on the plane.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52731711757_4a11dda9fd_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Members of the UME and Chilean firefighters in the area of operations of the forest fire in the community of Yumbel<\/strong>, in the Biob\u00edo region, on February 7.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52732485994_7b816a1a31_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Members of the UME and Chilean firefighters opening a firebreak<\/strong> in the Omer Huet forest fire, in the Hualqui region, on February 9.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52732234191_d6fd20c360_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chilean firefighters and members of the UME <\/strong> in the area of the Omer Huet fire, on February 9.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52731711467_5d74d107f1_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The perimeter work of the Omer Huet forest fire<\/strong>, on February 12.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52732718218_763d0c5f07_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>UME members fighting the fire<\/strong> at the Omer Huet fire on 12 February.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52732718303_246b5a7118_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another image of the <strong>perimeter tasks of the Omer Huet forest fire<\/strong>, already at night, on February 12.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52731711742_66ba38db9b_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>UME members putting out the embers of a burning forest<\/strong> in Omer Huet on 12 February.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52732485924_66c747af28_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the middle of a forest burned down and covered in smoke<\/strong> in Omer Huet, on February 12.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52731711532_9a8d7fbb24_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Health personnel from the UME<\/strong> treating wounds caused by the fight against the fire in Omer Huet, on February 12. The vehicle was provided by the Chileans for use by the UME contingent, since the Spanish military did not have their own vehicles.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52732718308_da36870692_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Members of the UME with Chilean Marines<\/strong> in the Biob\u00edo region, on February 15.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52732791508_7c01a8244b_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Members of the UME with the Chilean military trucks they used to get around.<\/strong> This photo is from the area of the Los Cortijos forest fire on February 15.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52731711607_e43643c3da_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Members of the UME and Chilean personnel at the command post<\/strong>, on February 17.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52732486034_b23fc7a115_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A member of the UME in the Santa Ana forest fire<\/strong>, in the Coronel commune, Biob\u00edo region, on February 18.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52732234061_34328e9f28_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Chilean citizen greets the members of the UME<\/strong>. The Spanish military have received many tokens of gratitude from the Chilean people.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52732485824_92c88079ec_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Members of the UME with Mexican soldiers at the Santa Ana fire<\/strong>, in Coronel, on February 19. Mexico sent 180 soldiers to fight forest fires in Chile. Emergency personnel from Argentina, France and Portugal also arrived, joining the 2,400 soldiers deployed by Chile to fight the fire.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52732486084_c8ec462275_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Among the material that the UME brought with it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infodron.es\/texto-diario\/mostrar\/4166044\/ume-viaja-drones-hasta-chile-luchar-contra-incedios-forestales\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mavic, Matrice 300 RTK and Elios 2 drones<\/a><\/strong>, equipped with thermal cameras, for reconnaissance of affected areas. Here we see a Matrice 300 RTK drone in flight at the Santa Ana fire, in Coronel, on February 19.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52732718593_b4a252170d_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Chief of Defense for the Biob\u00edo region expressing his gratitude to the UME<\/strong> at the farewell ceremony held on March 3.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52732718498_45bd97a9b1_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Members of the UME and staff from Chile and Mexico at the farewell ceremony in Biob\u00edo<\/strong>, posing with the flags of Spain, Biob\u00edo and Chile.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congratulations to the members of the UME who have participated in this operation. <\/strong>Once again, you make us feel proud of you.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photos: Unidad Militar de Emergencias \/ Ministerio de Defensa de Espa\u00f1a \/ Jefatura de la Defensa Nacional de la Armada de Chile en la regi\u00f3n del Biob\u00edo.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of January, a serious wave of forest fires began that devastated central and southern Chile, leaving 26 dead and more than 2,000 injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,11550],"tags":[18324,18694,738,18696,16991,18693,18697,17624,18692,14627,14232,11462,18695],"class_list":["post-50721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-defense","tag-batallon-de-transmisiones-de-la-ume-btume","tag-biobio","tag-chile","tag-coronel-chile","tag-forest-fires","tag-hualqui","tag-matrice-300-rtk","tag-military-emergency-unit-ume","tag-omer-huet","tag-primer-batallon-de-intervencion-en-emergencias-biem-i","tag-quinto-batallon-de-intervencion-en-emergencias-biem-v","tag-spain","tag-yumbel"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-11 23:30:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}