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Saturday, February 10, 2024

‘It was total panic – with black smoke, falling fireballs and tongues of flame’: the terror of Chile’s wildfires

 On the afternoon of Friday 2 February, Danitza Hurtado was resting at home after work, unconcerned about the seasonal summer wildfires that had started in a nearby farm close to a nature reserve. By 6pm, she was frantically gathering belongings with her father and brother as fireballs rained down and a wall of black smoke crept up the hill towards their home in the Achupallas neighbourhood on the fringes of Viña del Mar, a coastal city of about 300,000 people.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/feb/10/chile-wildfires-vina-del-mar-achupallas

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