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Chile: the country hit by violent fires
Chile: the country hit by violent fires – (France 2)
Chile is hit by violent fires causing a thick column of smoke. A state of emergency was declared and hundreds of evacuations took place in the tourist region of Valparaiso.
Not a house seems to have been spared by the flames: for hundreds of meters, the hills of Viña del Mar were transformed into piles of still smoking ashes. Ravaged by fires, nothing remains of part of the seaside resort. The toll, which will rise, is fatal: around a hundred homes were burned and 19 people died in a single sector of the city.
State of emergency declared
Faced with these events, the government declared a state of emergency to mobilize as many firefighters as possible. Faced with the flames, they seem powerless. For the inhabitants, forced to abandon everything to survive, the observation is painful: “My house is over there, I watch it burn”, deplores a disconcerted resident. Saturday February 3, the authorities reported 90 fires still active.
