SANTIAGO, Chile — Firefighters rescued dozens of people from a mixed commercial and residential high rise in Chile’s capital Thursday, plucking some from windows and balconies with ladder trucks and ...

Chile’s deadly wildfires wiped out neighborhoods. One stood unscathed. Updated February 10, 2024. 8 min. The Botania neighborhood of Quilpué, Chile, was protected by a pilot fireproofing ...

Weeks after Chile’s deadliest wildfire, some firefighters and residents said a lack of water to fire hydrants had hampered efforts to combat the inferno that destroyed thousands of homes and ...

Massive wildfires in Chile kill more than 120 03:15. Chilean authorities on Sunday issued two evacuation alerts for the southern region of La Araucanía as wildfires raged. At least one person has ...

Devastating wildfires tearing through swaths of Chile have killed more than 120 people, authorities said Monday, as they warned that the death toll was set to rise.

At least 112 people died in recent days in a wildfire in Chile. Like the vast majority of fires in South America, humans likely ignited it, but climate change-driven heat and drought allowed ...

Firefighters battled dozens of raging wildfires in Chile on Sunday, seeking to gain control of one of the country's worst natural disasters in years as the death toll rose to at least 24 with ...

SANTIAGO, Chile — Chile extended an emergency declaration to another region Saturday as firefighters struggled to control dozens of raging wildfires that have claimed at least 22 lives amid a ...

The plague of wildfires in Chile is a warning for our future Retracing Darwin’s journey through South America, I had an ominous premonition about environmental crisis By Nikolas Kozloff.

The devastating wildfires tearing across large parts of Chile are believed to be the country’s deadliest on record, according to the United Nations disaster agency, as firefighters struggle to ...

Dozens of wildfires blazing through Chile caused the government to extend an emergency order to another region on Saturday. More than 1,100 people have sought refuge in shelters while at least 979 … ...

From the coast to its central provinces, more than 120 people are dead and many others are missing due to a rash of wildfires raging throughout Chile.The beleaguered South American country appears ...