In the last few hours, various devices and specialists in firefighting have arrived in Chile from Spain, Argentina, Mexico and the United States, a country that has sent the “Ten Tanker”, the largest available tanker plane in the world, with the capacity to 36,000 liters
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken sent his condolences to the Chilean people for the devastating fires and announced that his country will provide “additional help in the days and weeks ahead,” he said in a message on Twitter.
In one of the places where the incident occurred, Santa Juana, in the Biobío region, 500 km south of Santiago, Carmen Cuevas was sorry to see the place where she was born and raised “turned into ashes,” she told AFP at a hospital collection to help the community.
The size of the fire, which has burned an area larger than Luxembourg, has caused the smoke to reach the capital of the country.
Chile spends the summer with record temperatures. At points in the Andean foothills, temperatures above 40ºC have been recorded.