Chile’s deadly wildfires wiped out neighborhoods. One stood unscathed.

 

Heading up the hill, on the way to the neighborhood, everything looked black. On one side of the road, the charred remains of houses and the skeletons of trees. Beyond, the smoking husk of Chile’s national botanical garden. The air still carried the acrid smell of the historic wildfires that left at least 131 people dead, destroyed thousands of homes in the seaside Valparaíso region and plunged the Andean nation into mourning. But at the crest of the hill, there was a stunning sight. In this desert of ash and soot, an oasis.

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