A total of 130 square kilometers (500 square miles) have been charred, mainly in sparsely populated rural areas, according to the National Emergency Office. Although most of 150 fires that broke out ...
It took 20 minutes for decades of family memories to be reduced to smoke and ash. Claudia Matamala, 34, broke down in tears recounting how flames engulfed her parents’ home in the port town of Lirquén ...