Chileans who survived deadly forest fire fear flames will return


Brigade members of the National Forestry Corporation fight a fire in Nacimiento, Concepcion province, Chile on February 4, 2023. The inferno has so far claimed the lives of 24 people. – AFP pic, February 6, 2023.

MARIA Ines Hernandez described forest fires ravaging central Chile with the death so far of 24 people as hell on Earth.

The 55-year-old social worker in the town of Santa Juana in the hard-hit Bobio farming region said many houses in the area were reduced to ashes.


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