Chile accuses volunteer firefighter and ex-forestry official with causing huge fire that killed 137 yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
SANTIAGO - A volunteer firefighter and a Chilean forestry official have been formally accused by prosecutors with involvement in setting wildfires that engulfed central Chile in February, killing over 130 people. Implicated so far is volunteer firefighter Francisco Ignacio Mondaca, along with Francisco Pinto, an official from Chile's National Forestry Corporation (Conaf), part of the Agriculture ministry that is responsible.
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