Search for hundreds of missing people underway in Chile after wildfires ravage neighbourhoods
Volunteers in central Chile tried to remove charred metal, broken glass and other debris Monday from neighbourhoods devastated by wildfires over the past several days, as officials raised the death toll to 122. Hundreds of people remain missing.
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![Marco Delgadillo stands at his home burnt when forest fires reached El Olivar neighborhood, in Vina del Mar, Chile, Monday, Feb. 5, 2024. Areas around Vina del Mar were among the hardest-hit by fires that broke out in central Chile three day earlier, resulting in the deaths of more than a hundred people. A man stands in a house burned by a wildfire.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7105806.1707176885!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/chile-fires.jpg)
Volunteers in central Chile tried to remove charred metal, broken glass and other debris Monday from neighbourhoods devastated by wildfires over the past several days, as officials raised the death toll to 122. Hundreds of people remain missing.