LIMA—Peruvian President Dina Boluarte declared a state of emergency on Sept. 18 in three regions affected by devastating forest fires that have burned through swathes of the nation’s Andean and Amazonian croplands and left 16 dead.
The heavily forested northern regions of Amazonas, San Martin, and Ucayali will be under the new emergency measures, she said, following several requests from local authorities for more resources to be allocated to fight the fires.
