International help was set to arrive on Sunday from a handful of countries that have pledged resources, including planes and expert firefighting teams
, as the most intense wildfires torched forests and farmland clustered around three regions near the middle of the South American country’s long Pacific coastline.
The fires have consumed some 270,000 hectares, officials said on Sunday, or an area roughly the size of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. Pockets of intense fire could be seen leaping out from the forested hills off the coast near the town of Dichato just outside the city of Concepcion in the Biobio region on Saturday night, as light from the flames illuminated boats in the small harbour.
Some 260 fires are active across the parched region, interior ministry officials said on Sunday, with 28 of them considered especially dangerous.
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