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During January, 45,000 hectares of forest have burned in southern Chile. Lirqu\u00e9n, a port and industrial town in the municipality of Penco in Chile's Biob\u00edo Region, has an estimated population of approximately 20,000 inhabitants. On January 17 and 18, it suffered a serious fire caused by the proximity of forest fires. Twenty people died and 4,300 houses and 720 apartments were destroyed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Danilo Sanhueza, Commander of the Penco Fire Department, says that they fought the fire all night. At 1:00 a.m. he heard on the radio that his daughter Michele, 27 years old, also a firefighter, was asking for help because she had been trapped by the fire; he spoke to her father to say goodbye because she had no way out. He tried to cheer her up by telling her to remember her training for such extreme situations. The commander had no way to save his daughter, but she finally managed to escape from the fire in a vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The parish of Lirqu\u00e9n was totally destroyed by the fire, but the following Sunday the Archbishop of Concepci\u00f3n celebrated Mass outside the church for many faithful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Caritas Chile quickly mobilized to help the people affected by these fires, not only in Lirqu\u00e9n but also in other towns in the Bio Bio and \u00d1uble Regions affected by the fires. It has focused on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Humanitarian aid<\/strong>Support to families with food, water, personal protection items, among other essential items and supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Psychosocial, emotional and spiritual support<\/strong> oriented to provide accompaniment to families, which favors the resignification of human pain, activates community ties and the articulation with local support networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Provision of financial support<\/strong> for the affected people to recover their work tools and their capacity to generate income independently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Home Equipment<\/strong>Provision of basic household goods and essential goods so that families can return to their homes with dignity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Durante enero se han quemado 45.000 hect\u00e1reas de bosques en el sur de Chile. Lirqu\u00e9n, localidad portuaria e industrial perteneciente a la comuna de Penco en la Regi\u00f3n del Biob\u00edo (Chile), cuenta con una poblaci\u00f3n estimada de aproximadamente 20.000 habitantes. Los d\u00edas 17 y 18 de enero sufri\u00f3 un grave incendio producido por la cercan\u00eda […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":57852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,37,46],"tags":[885],"class_list":["post-57851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad","category-america-latina","category-mundo","tag-chile"],"yoast_head":"\nGraves incendios forestales destruyen pueblos en sur de Chile - Omnes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Los incendios forestales del sur de Chile han\u00a0arrasando localidades como Lirqu\u00e9n, donde se suceden la tragedia y la solidaridad.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/news\/forest-fires-chile\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Graves incendios forestales destruyen pueblos en sur de Chile - 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