Elías Antonio Salazar, 39, is accused of deliberately starting the blazes because he wanted to be a “hero”. The fires, which ...
The fire was Chile's deadliest, killing a total of 137 people and leaving many more homeless.
A volunteer firefighter and ... Osvaldo Ossandon linked Mondaca to six previous fires in the region. The severity of these ...
Firefighters battled dozens of raging wildfires in Chile yesterday ... tweeted that he would keep working “to confront the forest fires and to help families”. The fires have consumed some ...
The last major fires to affect Chile were recorded in the summer of 2017 when the flames swept through entire villages, causing 11 deaths and more than 580 thousand hectares affected.
adds to those of another volunteer firefighter and a forestry official suspected of involvement in the second deadliest inferno recorded in the world this century. Several fires broke out ...
At least 112 people have been killed by forest fires in Chile's Valparaíso region ... vehicles to reach affected areas. Some 1,400 firefighters are being deployed on Sunday, the interior minister ...
Police in Chile have arrested a former firefighter on suspicion of contributing to a deadly forest ... by the fire service for rushing to that fire without waiting for official orders, but his ...
Thousands of homes were destroyed in Chile's deadliest fire Police in Chile have arrested a former firefighter on suspicion of contributing to a deadly forest fire which killed 137 people in February.