Chile widens state of emergency as raging wildfires leave four dead

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President Gabriel Boric cuts short vacation as heatwave fuels blazes across southern and central regions

Photograph: Juan González/ReutersPhotograph: Juan González/Reuters’s government has declared a widened state of emergency amid wildfires that have killed four people and consumed about 8,000 hectares , as the South American country endures a summer heatwave across southern and central swaths of the country.

Four people were reported to have died and hundreds were evacuated on Friday when the flames reached the town of Santa Ana. Toha said two of the dead were killed when the fires engulfed the road they were traveling on, while the other two died in a car accident, presumably while trying to escape the inferno.

The catastrophe declaration allows the deployment of the armed forces and provides greater coordination in firefighting and public security.

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