“Unprecedented disaster’: Flames rage in popular tourist town – at least 51 dead in fires in Chile. President Garbiel Boric declares a state of emergency.
43,000 hectares of land have already been destroyed by the fires across the country. Thousands of people were evacuated and returned only to find burnt-out ruins. Cloths with covered corpses line the streets in front of the burned houses. It's dark, thick smoke hangs over the city of Viña del Mar.