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A total of 3,538 wildfires were recorded in the region up to 1 July, up 40% compared to 2020, the year with the most wildfires in the region. [ 12 ] In late August, wildfires caused by prolonged drought conditions and strong wind gusts impacted thirty cities in São Paulo state , either directly affecting them or burning near them.
The "Casablanca" fire, [19] covering 69.5 hectares (172 acres) in the Peñablanca sector, [20] was extinguished through collaborative efforts between the Quillón and Florida fire departments. [21] In the last week of January 2024, a heatwave hit central Chile, with temperatures 10 to 15 °C (18 to 27 °F) above the weekly average. Anticipating ...
The Chilean government has reported at least 24 fatalities from the February wildfire outbreak, [1] at least 11 of them in the town of Santa Juana in Biobío. Two of the other fatalities occurred when an emergency services helicopter crashed on 3 February, killing its pilot and a mechanic, and a third occurred when a firefighter was struck by a truck while working an incident.
Raging wildfires in central Chile have killed at least 51 people with the blaze reaching a popular tourist city as emergency services continue to battle the flames.. President Gabriel Boric in a ...
The toll from Chile's worst natural disaster in years was expected to climb further as residents, firefighters and military raced to clear rubble in residential areas of the coastal cities of ...
Natural disasters in Chile (6 C, 8 P) E. ... Natural disasters in Venezuela (5 C) This page was last edited on 26 October 2019, at 05:08 (UTC). ...
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In the misty forests just outside of Chile's capital Santiago, a rescued puma stalks the leafy surroundings of the Refugio Animal Cascada, a shelter hoping to rehabilitate and house wildlife ...