Record summer temperatures and a 13-year “mega drought” in Chile are hampering efforts to tackle a large wildfire outbreak that began earlier this month. Learn how NOAA satellites are monitoring the fire conditions in this week's EarthFromOrbit video:
. The fires have killed at least 26 people, left at least 1,182 injured, destroyed 1,100 homes and prompted the declaration of a state of emergency in three regions.Biobío and Ñuble
The fires, which have consumed almost 741,315 acres of land, have already made 2023 the second worst year in terms of hectares burned after the so-called “firestorm” that hit the country in 2017. Twenty-eight of the hundreds of fires have burned the amount of forest and woodland the country typically loses over the course of a year.
Chile’s interior minister, Carolina Tohá, said 76 new fires had broken out on February 3rd alone, adding that the record temperatures were making it very difficult to stop the blazes from spreading. “The thermometer has reached points that we have never known until now,” Tohá said on Saturday. She also suggested the fires should serve as a wake-up call about the effects of the climate emergency.
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