{"id":15098,"date":"2024-02-05T00:46:13","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T00:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/05\/at-least-99-people-dead-as-wildfires-rage-in-chile-with-fears-toll-could-rise-further\/"},"modified":"2024-02-05T00:46:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T00:46:13","slug":"at-least-99-people-dead-as-wildfires-rage-in-chile-with-fears-toll-could-rise-further","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/05\/at-least-99-people-dead-as-wildfires-rage-in-chile-with-fears-toll-could-rise-further\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 99 people dead as wildfires rage in Chile, with fears toll could rise further"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            A state of emergency has been declared as coastal cities like Vi\u00f1a del Mar and Valparaiso are choked in smoke and people living in central regions are forced to leave their homes.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Rodrigo Mundaca, the governor of the Valparaiso region, said Sunday that authorities were upholding a curfew in the towns of Vi\u00f1a del Mar, Quilpu\u00e9, Villa Alemana and Limache to allow authorities to focus on battling the blazes.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Pope Francis in a post on \u2018X\u2019 called upon people to \u201cpray for the deceased and injured victims of the devastating fires that have affected central\u00a0Chile.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            In a televised statement on Saturday, Boric said that the defense ministry would deploy more military units to affected areas, with all necessary resources made available.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Earlier, Chile\u2019s Finance Minister Mario Marcel told reporters that a preliminary estimate for damages in the Valapara\u00edso region would reach the \u201chundreds of millions of dollars.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The fires come as the country is hit by a summer heatwave, with Chile\u2019s capital Santiago sweltering through consecutive days of hot, dry temperatures climbing above 33 degrees Celsius (91.4\u00b0F).    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Scientists say climate change and the El Nino weather phenomenon are driving forces behind an increasingly warm planet, making events such as heatwaves and fires more likely.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Emergency crews are prioritizing the fires in the port city of Valpara\u00edso on Chile\u2019s coast because of their proximity to urban areas and around 372 residents have been reported missing, according to its mayor.    <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A state of emergency has been declared as coastal cities like Vi\u00f1a del Mar and Valparaiso are choked in smoke and people living in central regions are forced to leave their homes. Rodrigo Mundaca, the governor of the Valparaiso region, said Sunday that authorities were upholding a curfew in the towns of Vi\u00f1a del Mar, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}