Argentina: Patagonia skies covered in thick haze amid raging wildfires

Follow us on Telegram: Subscribe to our channel! 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, an