Two deaths threaten in Chile due to new forest fires: Valparaíso communities evacuated

The authorities were arguing against another wave of dangerous forest fires along Chile’s Pacific coast Thursday morning, several weeks after fires killed more than 100 people. So far two children have died and several houses have been burned.

The national disaster agency said this on Wednesday evening several communities in the Valparaíso region They were in the process of evacuating. That part of the coast is dotted with cities that suddenly rise from the ocean.

fire brigades During the night they put out three fires of rapid, contained but still burning progress, Carolina Tohá Morales, Chilean Interior Minister, told journalists. You said one challenge was finding crews They couldn’t send planes to dump the water at night.

While the extent of the damage was unclear, he added, authorities estimated that between 15 and 40 homes were affected.

Two dead boys

The new outbreaks started about 120 kilometers north-west of the capital two children aged 12 and 16 deceased in a region still recovering from the deadliest fires in the country’s history.

The two minors died an accident that hit a house located in the sector known as Cerro Cordillera and, according to information from the Investigative Police (PDI) collected by the local press, Both were inside the bedroom when the flames broke out and they were unable to escape.

The largest epidemic was recorded on the same hill and, although it caused no victims, it affected at least 15 affected houses, which could reach 40, according to the Minister of the Interior, Carolina Tohá, last night after a meeting of the Risk Commission . Disaster Management Committee (Cogrid) to monitor the progress of the situation.

The authority maintained that this latest incident is being investigated It was caused by an explosion and explained that the flames were advancing rapidly and with a lot of forceThe firefighters and night firefighters of the National Forestry Corps (Conaf) then arrived on site.

Devastating fires ravaged the region last month after breaking out in Viña del Mar, a coastal resort town about 80 miles by road northwest of Santiago, the capital. They devastated entire neighborhoodsthey caught people fleeing in cars and destroyed thousands of homes.

President Gabriel Boric described these fires as the worst disaster in Chile since a catastrophic earthquake in 2010 killed more than 400 people and displaced about 1.5 million more people.