\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t At least 19 people have been confirmed dead by the Chilean government as wildfires, that started on Saturday, spread through the south-central region of the country, devastating the \u00d1uble and Biob\u00edo regions.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chilean president Gabriel Boric admitted that the number of victims is \u201clikely to rise,\u201d although he pointed out things on Sunday night went \u201cbetter than expected.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, Boric warned that \u201cweather conditions are not good, so it is possible that fires could reignite\u201d on Monday. So far, over 50,000 people have been evacuated from fire-affected areas.<\/p>\n
The fires quickly got out of control on Saturday afternoon, as high temperatures and strong winds set off multiple outbreaks in the areas of Lirqu\u00e9n, Penco, Tom\u00e9, Talcahuano and Quill\u00f3n.<\/p>\n
The fires have ravaged heavily populated areas in \u00d1uble and Biob\u00edo, some 500 kilometers south of the Chilean capital, Santiago.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Interior Minister \u00c1lvaro Elizalde said the country is \u201cfacing a complex scenario,\u201d with over 3700 firefighters working in the area. Boric travelled to the nearby city of Concepci\u00f3n to lead the firefighting operations, and has decreed a state of emergency in the area.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, Biob\u00edo National Forestry Corporation director Esteban Krause admitted weather conditions made it \u201cvery difficult\u201d to manage the fires, which he admitted were \u201ccompletely out of control.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chilean president elect Jos\u00e9 Antonio Kast, set to assume the presidency on March 11, called \u201call Chileans to be solidary\u201d in the face of the fires, but also said the crisis cannot \u201cmake us forget all the emergencies that are currently affecting our nation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At least 19 people have been confirmed dead by the Chilean government as wildfires, that started on Saturday, spread through the south-central region of the country, devastating the \u00d1uble and Biob\u00edo regions.\u00a0 Chilean president Gabriel Boric admitted that the number of victims is \u201clikely to rise,\u201d although he pointed out things on Sunday night went […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[739,7225,306],"tags":[3484,7289,904],"class_list":["post-27563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chile","category-wildfires","category-world","tag-chile","tag-wildfires","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}