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Deputy Interior Minister Manuel Monsalve reported on 4 February that there were 162 forest fires across central and southern Chile. [8] The region experienced unusually high temperatures, reaching up to 40 °C (104 °F) in the past week, [9] worsened by the El Niño phenomenon [10] and a "mega-drought" that has affected the country over the last decade. [11]
Emergency crews on the ground in Chile are prioritizing the fires in the port city of Valparaíso because of its proximity to urban areas. Local officials said 372 residents were reported missing.
Firefighters wrestled Sunday with massive forest fires that broke out in central Chile two days earlier, as officials extended curfews in cities most heavily affected by the blazes and said at ...
VINA DEL MAR, Chile (Reuters) -The death toll from wildfires raging across central Chile hit 122 on Monday as helicopters dumped tons of water on blazes and emergency crews told Reuters they were ...
Wildfire formation on 3 February 2023 captured by GOES-16 Color satellite image of the 2023 Chile wildfires between 1 and 5 Feb 2023. Starting on 30 January 2023, a series of wildfires began in the South American country of Chile. By early February, the fires had developed into a large outbreak of at least 406 individual fires, several dozen of ...
VIÑA DEL MAR, Chile (AP) — Intense forest fires burning around a densely populated area of central Chile have caused at least 46 deaths, Chile's president said Saturday evening, and officials ...
As a result of the fires, a total of 131 people were killed, [17] and at least 14,000 houses were affected by the fires in Viña del Mar and Quilpué. [21] The fires were regarded as the deadliest in Chile's history, and the deadliest disaster in the country since the 2010 Chile earthquake. [18]
(Reuters) -Forest fires raging in central Chile have killed at least 51 people and the death toll is likely to keep climbing, authorities said on Saturday, as emergency services battled to snuff ...