“It is a completely isolated incident and we want to clarify it as soon as possible”
Vicente Maggiolo
Commander of the Valparaíso Fire Company
The second arrest was confirmed on social networks by the Valparaíso Prosecutor’s Office, after 9:00 p.m. local time (2:00 GMT), which indicated that both arrested people will be formally charged throughout Saturday. For now, No further information has been released regarding the identity of the second detainee. nor about his ties to the volunteer firefighter arrested in the first place.
Deadliest wave in history
At the beginning of February, Chile experienced the Deadliest wave of fires in history and which became the worst tragedy since the 2010 earthquake.
The fire started on the morning of February 2 in four simultaneous outbreaks in the Lake Peñuelas Natural Park and they spread quickly due to the strong gusts of wind and the extreme temperatures of those days in the hills surrounding the city of Viña del Mar, which also spread to the towns of Quilpué and Villa Alemana, all located in the Valparaíso region.
The high population density in difficult-to-access terrain, added to the prolonged drought in Chile, made extinction tasks difficult. The regional governor, Rodrigo Mundaca, recalled in statements to the media that the authorities suspected from the beginning of the intentionality of the fire and stressed that “losing 137 lives is irreparable damage and deserves the maximum punishment.”
“All the Viñamarinos knew that this had been an intentional attack“said the mayor of Viña del Mar, Macarena Ripamonti, during the devastating wave of fires that devastated the Chilean region.
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