The region of Valparaiso and Viña del Marin the center of Chilidawn on Saturday with a partial curfew to allow the movement of evacuees and transfers of emergency equipment in the midst of a series of unprecedented fires, government authorities reported.
“It has been declared that between 8 in the morning (11:00 GMT) and noon (13:00 GMT), there will be a curfew,” announced the Minister of the Interior Carolina Toháas a result of fires and adverse weather conditions in the middle of the southern summer.
He curfew It is implemented after the president of Chile, Gabriel Boricwill declare a state of emergency due to catastrophe due to the forest fires that are ravaging the center and south of the country.
About 10 people have died, according to a preliminary official report released around midnight on Friday by the presidential delegate of the Valparaíso region.
The mayor of Viña del Mar,Macarena Ripamonti, assured that a situation “of this magnitude had not happened in the Valparaíso Region.”
”We are facing an unprecedented catastrophe, a situation of this magnitude had not happened in the Valparaíso Region, there are more than five simultaneous outbreaks and the most affected sector is again Viña del Mar,”, he noted.
Viña del Mar and Valparaiso They are located 120 km northwest of Santiago and with a large influx of tourists during this holiday period in full. southern summer.
The routes to these Pacific beaches were closed on Friday after noon, and several fire outbreaks expanded very quickly, burning populated areas, where the alternative routes of thousands of people trying to evacuate collapsed.
According to a report from the National Forestry Corporation (CONAF)the largest forest fire is in the Lago Peñuelas Reserve, next to the main highway to the area, which has burned more than 7,000 hectares.
The second most important fire is in La Aguada, commune of La Estrella, O’Higgins Region, in the center of the country, which has destroyed 4,084 hectares.
A heat wave with temperature maximums these days overwhelms the Southern American Cone, where the natural climate phenomenon The boy It is exacerbated by global warming caused by human activity, according to specialists.
Alerts for persistent suffocating heat are in effect from this week and next in areas of Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazilin addition to Chili.
Source: Gestion
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