Familys quite The areas affected by the fires in Chile began to return to their coloniesalthough the damage remains due to Emergency in which 131 people died.
Brenda And Humberto They returned to the community devastated Fires in Vina del sea, at northwest of Santiago.
Animated, They decorated the entrance to a future home with plants that they will rebuild in the same irregular settlement with minimal access that made evacuation difficult on the day of the tragedy.
We are a team. We’ll have a nicer house,” said Brenda Bustos, 28, who is currently unemployed.
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Without a moving planthe couple returned Mount SinaiA District that was founded illegally a few years ago and where about 200 families lived before the wildfires broke out on February 2nd.
This day The fire ravaged part of the crowded hills of Viña del Marwhere families have been settling on unauthorized land for decades.
In Mount Sinaithe residents remembered They escaped on their own.
Viña del Mar is the sixth largest city in Latin America with the most expensive real estateat two thousand 699 dollars per square meter, according to a study by the specialist website Portal Inmobiliario.
According to the government in the In the Valparaíso region, 38,079 houses were already missing before the firethe second highest value in the country.
Following the accidents, a further 15,000 residential properties were affected.
Despite the Danger of new fires, Humberto Guerraa 28-year-old baker is back in this city.
He brought with him two plants to place at the entrance to his property so that they would add “joy and life” to the pared-down space. Rubble and ash.
He scribbles the plans for his future house in a notebook and writes down the list of materials needed.
“Here I will make a piece of three square meters, I will use six logs (logs), 13 sticks for the ground and five wooden panels,” said Bustos, who, together with his partner, managed to escape on foot, and then with the Car from burning hill.
Aware of the dangerThe Neighbors want to implement new measures for their safety.
“The president (of the settlement) gave us the idea of making the land a little smaller, but widening the road so that firefighters have free access,” Humberto said.
Brenda’s eight-year-old daughter was outside. She cried a lot when she found out “that her little house had burned down,” the woman said.
They lost everything, but thanks to donations and help from family members, they got a tent and blankets.
Since Sunday they have been camping where their home was.
We will proceed slowly but surely,” said the baker.
With information from AFP.
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