At least 19 dead in the Valparaíso region due to serious forest fires that reach urban areas. The Minister of the Interior, Carolina Tohá, says that the number of fatalities is still “very provisional,” because there are areas where it has not yet been possible to enter.
The president, who is already beginning to fly over the area, has decreed a state of disaster emergency in the region. “We are facing a complex and critical situation,’ the regional governor, Rodrigo Mundaca, previously acknowledged.