Carlos Valenzuela, Mayor, on Wildfire in Santa Olga, Chile (2017)

“An entire town has been consumed by flames in Chile as unusually hot, dry weather undermined efforts to combat the worst forest fires in the country’s recent history.

“‘Nobody can imagine what happened in Santa Olga. What we have experienced here is literally like Dante’s Inferno,’ said Carlos Valenzuela, the mayor of the encompassing municipality Constitución. ‘We were recovering after the last earthquake, but this tragedy has messed up everything.’” [. . .]— Jonathan Watts, The Guardian, January 26, 2017