Wildfires cause catastrophe over swaths of central and southern parts of Chile

Posted on January 29, 2017 • Filed under: Chile, Enviromental Issues, Weather/Climate

(CNN.com)A chain of wildfires has unleashed a catastrophe over wide swaths of central and southern Chile, killing at least 11 people, destroying thousands of homes and consuming an area about three times the size of New York City, authorities said.
“We have never seen anything on this scale, never in the history of Chile,” President Michelle Bachelet, who has declared a state of emergency, said earlier this week. Read Article

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