Argentina: Patagonia skies covered in thick haze amid raging wildfires

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Firefighters struggled to contain widespread forest fires in Nahuel Huapi National Park on Wednesday.
The wildfires could be seen burning in several areas of the National Park creating obstacles for volunteer and state fire brigades.
“We had to move to this side because a secondary focus changed and became the head of the fire, it is pulling with south winds towards the north,” said Volunteer Fire Chief Alejandro Namor.
“We had the fire already crowned up on the mountain, so we went out because it was not a safe place,” he added.
More than 200 fire brigades with a dozen aircraft were deployed to battle the blazes in the area of the Nahuel Huapi National Park and other parts of Patagonia.
A helicopter fighting the outbreaks in the Quillen lake area in Alumine crashed on Wednesday reportedly leading to the death of two crew members.
Changing wind, droughts, and high temperatures exceeding 30 degrees Celsius, have fueled the spread of the wildfires throughout the country.
A nationwide state of emergency has been declared as more than 300,000 hectares of land have been destroyed.

SOT, Alejandro Namor, Volunteer fire chief at Nahuel Huapi National Park (Spanish): “We had to move to this side because a secondary focus changed and became the head of the fire, it is pulling with south winds towards the north, it has many possibilities of crossing Route 40, we are at the height of the park ranger house to be located.”

SOT, Alejandro Namor, Volunteer fire chief at Nahuel Huapi National Park (Spanish): “We had the fire already crowned up on the mountain so we went out because it was not a safe place.”

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