More than 100 homes have been affected and 47,000 hectares of forest destroyed since the fires broke out in Chile on Wednesday
More than 100 homes have been affected and 47,000 hectares of forest destroyed since the fires broke out on Wednesday.
Two crew members of a helicopter that was fighting the fires died in a crash Friday afternoon, Chile's agriculture minister Esteban Valenzuela said. The government has declared a state of disaster in the regions of Nuble and Biobio, but fires have also affected the Maule and La Araucania regions.
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