The European Commission has offered EU assistance to combat the wave of forest fires raging in central and southern Chile, which has left more than 20 people dead as of Sunday.
«We are closely following the devastating and numerous fires,» European Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarcic wrote on Twitter. «We are ready to assist the authorities in Chile so that the most affected areas receive the necessary support,» he added.
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has informed this Sunday that Spain has sent to Chile a plane with a contingent of the UME to collaborate in the extinction and control of the fires, something that the Chilean president, Gabriel Boric, has already publicly thanked.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
