400 firefighters and 1,300 soldiers and volunteers are preparing, Monday February 5, to fight for the fourth consecutive day against dozens of fires in central and southern Chile. On Monday, firefighters continued to fight around forty homes...
Entire neighborhoods devastated, charred cars, nearly 26,000 hectares gone up in smoke. On Friday, several fires broke out simultaneously in the mountains overlooking the resort town of Viña del Mar and other places in the Valparaiso region. Chile, in the middle of the southern summer, has been experiencing a heat wave since last week, with temperatures reaching 40°C.