According to the president, the country already has two of these aircraft, which can carry up to 15,000 liters of water, which will be operating for the next 100 days.

The first one, which they have seen fighting the fire, arrived last February by a private donation, when the emergency was already unleashed. Today we have another one much earlier with public financing, he said.

Boric added that we are better prepared than in previous years. We can announce that for the first time the National Forestry Corporation has two aircraft of this capacity to fight forest fires. Both are of the Hercules C-130 type.

During this year there is a greater risk of large fires due to the combination of high temperatures caused by global warming, strong wind, very low relative humidity and the presence of tall, dry, easily flammable vegetation.

Already in the first days of the season, the flames consumed more than 3,000 hectares of forest, several houses were damaged and seven people were injured, according to reports from the National Disaster Prevention and Response Service.

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