Wildfires in Chile have left at least 19 people dead, authorities said last week, as the government carried out mass evacuations and fought nearly two dozen blazes exacerbated by intense heat and high winds.
While weather overnight helped control some fires, the largest were still active, and adverse conditions were expected throughout the day, Security Minister Luis Cordero said in a news briefing Monday.
“The projection we have today is of high temperatures,” Cordero said, and the main worry was that new fires would be triggered throughout the region.
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