Chile: gigantic fire in Iquique devastates at least 30 wooden houses | VIDEO

An uncontrolled fire destroyed at least 30 fragile wooden houses on Monday in a poor neighborhood in Iquique, in northern Chile, while firefighters faced severe difficulties in supplying their trucks with water.

Álvaro Hormazábal, director of the National Emergency Office of the Ministry of the Interior (ONEMI) of Tarapacá, said that the accident broke out after noon and that now “there is no water, the nearest tap is about 200 meters away.”

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The wooden houses, which were built on the slopes of a hill in Iquique, 1,800 kilometers north of Santiago, in the Laguna Verde sector, lack any urban organization, and their narrow passageways prevent the entry of fire trucks, for what the firefighters had to enter on foot carrying hoses.

#Iquique / A gigantic fire occurs at this time in the Laguna Verde sector, affecting dozens of homes. The Fire Department works hard to control the accident pic.twitter.com/2u4ePefhOQ

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Hormazábal estimated at about 30 the houses consumed by the fire. However, the mayor of Iquique, Mauricio Soria, said they are “much more.” He added that “here it is not necessary to speak of houses as constituted by a property, in a few meters there may be 5, 10 or 15 families.”

Television footage from the scene showed Laguna Verde residents getting dangerously close to the flames to try to salvage some property.

In Iquique there are many poor neighborhoods or camps in the hills that rise behind the back of the city, and many of its inhabitants are unauthorized immigrants seeking a better life in Chile.

“Many people live here who have come to the city of Iquique, to this part, and many foreigners, so we don’t have their documentation either,” said the mayor.

Soria said that at the moment there are no reports of injuries and that the Municipality is already preparing shelters for 200 to 300 people because the number of victims is unknown.

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