Forest fires have killed 24 people, injured nearly 1,000 and destroyed 800 homes in five days as a blistering heat wave grips south-central Chile, authorities said Sunday.
Brigade members of the National Forestry Corporation fight a fire in Nacimiento, Concepcion province, Chile on February 4, 2023. – At least 23 people have died in hundreds of forest fires whipped up amid a blistering heat wave in south central Chile, a senior government official said Saturday night.
The fatalities included one firefighter as well as two crew members of a helicopter that crashed on Friday.Eight firefighters are among the injured. “It is a miracle that some of the houses were spared,” she said, but “now we are afraid that the fire will return…. Where will we find refuge? Where? How?”
“The people did not manage to save anything, they left with what they wore, because the fire advanced very quickly.” “We have just sent a plane to Chile with a contingent of the Emergency Military Unit to help extinguish and control the fires that are plaguing the country. All our support for the Chilean people,” tweeted Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.
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