Current forest fires in Chile
14 January 2015
On January 12, 2015, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Aqua satellite captured an image of a large wildfire burning in central Chile, to the west of Talca. Red outlines indicate hot spots where MODIS detected unusually warm surface temperatures associated with fire. Winds pushed the smoke plume north. The sensor also detected a smaller fire burning to the south of Santiago. As of January 14, the fire west of Talca appeared much smaller but was still burning.
Source: Nasa Earth Observatory
On 13 January 2015, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) onboard of NASAs Aqua satellite captured the picture (upper part) of a fire near the town of Contitucion in the center of Chile, this large fire has burned-down15 houses and triggered evacuations on the neighboring villages, a large smoke plume (ca. 600 Km) can be seen drifting North passing the capital, Santiago. The lower part shows several fires in Southern Chile. During these days, over 100 fires have ravaged through Chile, all of them are suspected to be accidental or intentional rather than natural, the Government of Argentina has sent reinforces for the fire brigades to fight the fires. The hotspots are outlined in red.
Source: Nasa Rapid Response (Images edited and interpreted by GFMC)
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) onboard of NASAs Terra satellite acquired this false color image of the fire affecting the Commune of Constitucion on the 13 January 2015. The fire advances through plantations of Pine (Pinus radiata) andEucalyptus globulus among other fast growing species, destroying the livelyhood of hundreds of families.
Source: NASA Rapid Response. (Images edited and interpreted by GFMC)
Recent Media Reports on Fires in Chile: Note: The hyperlinks on the left side of each news are password-protected (User ID and password to enter the GFMC database are available for partners of GFMC. To obtain the ID and password, please send your query to fire@fire.uni-freiburg.de). The links on the right side (in brackets) are leading to the original news source; sometimes these news are expiring rather swiftly – a reason for the establishment of the internal GFMC database):
- 100 Wildfires in Chile burn 35,000 acres and 15 homes (published by www.laprensasa.com 12 January 2015)
News form 2014
- Flames still lick at Chile’s Valparaiso, with 15 dead, 2,500 homes destroyed, 11,000 evacuees (published by www.winnipegfreepress.com 14 April 2014)
- Chile fire in Valparaiso kills 12 and forces thousands to evacuate (published by www.bbc.com 14 April 2014)
- Wildfire in Chilean city kills 4, consumes 500 homes: ‘One of the worst fires’ (published by http://edition.cnn.com 13 April 2014)
- Fire engulfs parts of Chile’s Valparaiso, two dead (published by http://in.reuters.com 13 April 2014)
- Gross feuer wüten in Chile (video) (published by www.gmx.net 13 April 2014)
ore reports see GFMC Media page: https://gfmc.online/media-highlights-on-fire-policies-and-politics.html
