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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 ...
Volunteers in central Chile tried to remove charred metal, broken glass and other debris Monday from neighborhoods devastated by wildfires over the past several days, as officials raised the death ...
About 92 forest fires were burning in central and southern Chile, according to interior minister Carolina Toha. "The condition of Valparaiso is the most delicate," Ms Toha said, adding that Chile ...
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.
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]
In the two decades from 2000 to 2020, the 2017 Chile wildfires were the ones that impacted the largest area of protected areas and the largest number of protected areas in Central Chile. [4] In this regard only the wildfire seasons of 2009–2010 and 2019–2020 are comparable in the whole 2000–2020 period. [4]
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 ...
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]