11 dead as fire hits Chile historic Valparaiso
VALPARAISO, Chile (AP) -- A raging fire leaped from hilltop to hilltop in this colorful port city, killing at least 11 people and destroying more than 500 homes. More than 10,000 people were evacuated, including more than 200 female inmates at a prison.
The fire began Saturday afternoon in a forested area above ramshackle housing on one of the city's 42 hilltops, and spread quickly as high winds blowing seaward rained hot ash over wooden houses and narrow streets. Electricity failed as the fire grew, with towering, sparking flames turning the night sky orange over a darkening, destroyed horizon. Eventually, neighborhoods on six hilltops were reduced to ashes, including one hill just several blocks from Chile's parliament building.
It's a tremendous tragedy. This could be the worst fire in the city's history, President Michelle Bachelet said as firefighters contained most of the blazes, mobilizing 18 helicopters and planes to drop water on hotspots Sunday.
Bachelet warned that the toll of death and damage would rise once authorities can enter the smoldering remains. Military Police Gen. Julio Pineda said 11 were killed. Earlier Sunday, he said 16 died, but it turned out one family had been counted twice. More than 500 people were treated at hospitals, mostly for smoke inhalation.
Patricio Bustos, who directs the national forensics service, said DNA tests would be needed to identify some of the remains.
It was already the worst fire to hit the picturesque seaside city of 250,000 people since 1953, when 50 people were killed and every structure was destroyed on several of the city's hills.
While the fires were contained to the hills, Bachelet declared the entire city a catastrophe zone, putting Chile's military in charge of maintaining order. The people of Valparaiso have courage, have strength and they aren't alone, Bachelet said.
Valparaiso, which was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2003, is known for colorful neighborhoods hugging hills so steep that people have to use staircases rather than streets. About 75 miles (120 kilometers) northwest of the capital, Santiago, it has a vibrant port and is home to Chile's national legislature.
But many homes in poorer areas above the city center have been built without water supplies or access points wide enough for fire trucks, so much of the fight was from the air.
This is the worst catastrophe I've seen, said Ricardo Bravo, the regional governor. Now we have to make sure the fire doesn't reach the city center, which would make this emergency much more serious.
While 1,250 firefighters, police and forest rangers battled the blaze, 2,000 Chilean sailors in combat gear patrolled streets to maintain order and prevent looting.
Shelters were overflowing.
Maria Elizabeth Diaz, eight months pregnant and trying to rest with her two sons in a shelter set up in Valparaiso's Greek School, said she had been hesitant to flee her home in Cerro Las Canas when she first learned that the hilltop above her was on fire.
I didn't want to move because I was afraid they'd rob me, but I had to flee when I saw the fire was coming down the hill, she said. I lost everything. Now I've been ordered to rest because I was having contractions. My little one knows that he can't arrive quite yet.
Another evacuee, Erica Gonzalez, 74, said her daughter and some neighbors had to carry her to safety because the fire burned her wheelchair.
I was left in the street. My house was completely burned, and that of my daughter a block away, she said, visibly upset as she hugged a grandchild.
As fires were contained, some people returned Sunday to discover total destruction.
It's frightening, everything is burned, said Francisca Granados, who had spent the night with friends in the neighboring city of Vina del Mar.
Thick clouds of smoke surrounded the city prison, where nine pregnant inmates were transferred to a detention facility in the nearby city of Quillota. Another 204 female inmates were being evacuated to a sports arena. More than 2,700 male inmates will remain at the prison for now, prison guard commander Tulio Arce said.
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다음날 새벽 아르헨티나 바릴로체를 떠나 칠레 푸콘으로 향하는 버스를 탔다. 바릴로체에서 푸콘으로 가기 위해서는 안데스산맥을 관통하는 고속도로를 달려야 한다. 버스가 안데스 산맥 속으로 들어가자 해발 3천미타의 설산들이 모습을 드러낸다. 이곳의 도로도 해발 2천 미터여서 여전히 겨울이다. 한 겨울에는 수 십 미터의 눈이 쌓여 자주 끊기곤 한단다. 칠레 푸콘으로 가기위해서는 국경검문소에서 입국허가증을 받아야한다. 마약과 농 식물의 유입은 엄격하게 통제된다. 6시간 정도 걸려 내려온 칠레 평원은 아르헨티나 바릴로체보다 봄이 완연하다. 12시간 걸려 나의 두 번째 여행지 칠레 푸콘에 도착했다. 푸콘은 칠레에서 가장 인기 있는 국립공원인 비야리카 화산이 있는 휴양도시다. 도시의 거리는 스위스 풍으로 아름답고 평화롭다. 주민은 주로 원주민과 백인의 혼혈인 메스티죠계이다. 2 만 명이 주민이 대부분 관광업에 종사하며 살고 있다. 도시의 풍경도 참 이색적이다. 시내 어디에서도 비야리카 화산을 볼 수 있다. 시내를 거닐며 각기 다른 모습으로 다가오는 비야리카 화산을 보는 재미도 쏠쏠하다. 푸콘도 비야리카 화산을 뒷산으로 삼고 앞에는 푸른 호수를 낀 안데스지역의 호수지구다. 검은 모래사장이 펼쳐진 이 비야리카 호수 해변은 여름에 휴양객으로 넘쳐나는 곳이다. 관광객들이 상쾌한 기운의 호수해변에서 휴식을 취하고 있다. “너무 아름답고 좋은 시간을 보낼 거 같았어요. 일주일 전부터 보니까 날씨도 이렇게 좋고 쾌청하고 햇빛도 많고 화산도 멋있고 호수도 좋아요. 푸콘은 아주 아름다운 도시이고 관광지여서 올만한 가치가 있습니다. 정말 아름답네요.”
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RR8038 PINOCHET'S CHILE
RR8038 PINOCHET'S CHILE
Background to Story: The Pinochet regime in Chile has the reputation of being a
stern dictatorship, with an appalling record on human rights. But Chileans have
just confirmed President Pinochet in power for a new eight-year term, under a new
constitution that could put off parliament democracy until 1997. An astonishing
turn-about for a nation that voted in Salvador Allende, the world's first freely
elected Marxist leader. It seems to have happened because Pinochet has succeeded
where Allende failed - in maintaining government authority and making the economy
work.
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CUTS 24 3 81 AFTERMATH OF FIRE IN CHILE'S TALLEST OFFICE BUILDING
(24 Mar 1981) Aftermath of fire at Chile's tallest office building, which killed at least 10 people.
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Chile – The Great Escape: Protester evades 5 riot police bikers chasing him down (Never give up!)
[Video recorded in Temuco, Chile, 7 November 2019, @diariovenceremos]
Not Falling for It: How the Uprising in #Chile Has Outlasted State Repression And the Questions for Movements to Come
As of today—Friday, November 8, 2019—the government of Chile has spent three full weeks switching back and forth between strategies of brutality, division, and deceit without yet succeeding in stemming the tide of resistance. The events of these weeks offer a useful primer in strategies of state repression and how to outmaneuver, outsmart, and outlast them.
On October 6, the Chilean government headed by rapacious billionaire Sebastián Piñera announced a new austerity package that would further impoverish struggling Chileans. Unfortunately for the authorities, it was an inopportune moment to squeeze an already restless population. The next day, in Ecuador, thousands of indigenous people arrived in the capital city to protest an austerity package, occupying the Parliament building and clashing with police forces. On October 14, the Ecuadorian government backed down, repealing the austerity bill.
That same day, students swung into action in Chile, organizing a series of mass fare-dodging protests against the hike in public transit costs. These culminated on October 18 in clashes, vandalism, and arsons that damaged 16 buses and 78 metro stations, as well as various banks and several other major buildings, including the headquarters of the Italian energy company Enel. In retaliation, Piñera announced a state of emergency and curfew, hoping to bludgeon the population back into submission.
Conspiracy theories have circulated about the arsons. This always happens when ordinary people manage to get the better of the authorities, shocking those who take it for granted that the state is the only protagonist of history. Conspiracy theories about how the government arranged for the destruction of its own public transit infrastructure are disempowering and irrational; they also obscure what was strategic about the arsons. Whether by smashing the turnstiles or burning entire stations, it was precisely by making business as usual impossible that demonstrators made the desperate circumstances of their daily lives a problem for their rulers. Without the vandalism and looting, the movement would never have become the force that it is.
The next day, October 19, Piñera suspended the metro price increase. The speed with which he did this shows that he knew he had pushed people too far. If he could have waited to suspend the fare increase, he might have been able to announce it later, in order to give demonstrators a feeling of accomplishment and get them out of the streets; instead, having already pushed his luck, he had to suspend it immediately in hopes of discharging popular resentment before the crisis deepened. It didn’t work.
For a government, the goal of making concessions is only to trick enough people into leaving the streets that it will be possible to isolate and defeat those who remain. On October 20, Piñera expanded the state of emergency to most of the country, announcing from the headquarters of the army that his government was “at war against a powerful and implacable enemy.” This gesture, and above all the place from which he spoke, was a not-so-coded declaration that he intended to return Chile to the murderous state violence of the Pinochet dictatorship.
Yet once again, the people in the streets did not back down. They continued to demonstrate, even as the military injured and killed people, and they refused to permit the authorities to sow divisions, sticking together with the same cohesion that has given the movement in Hong Kong its long life.
This is why, on October 23, Piñera was forced to announce the suspension of the whole austerity package and the introduction of some minor reforms—what Chileans have been calling “table scraps.”
Again, Chileans knew better than to settle for this. That same day, Chile’s trade unions declared a general strike. On October 25, the largest demonstration in Chilean history took place, bringing 1.2 million people into the streets of Santiago to show that they supported this movement that had originated in massive public criminal activity and continued in defiance of the express orders of the government.
This was a massive defeat for Piñera—it showed that he could neither resolve the situation by brute force nor by petty bribery. This is why, on October 26, he promised to lift the State of Emergency and to swap out some of the ministers in his government—though not to relinquish power himself. He also changed his rhetoric, congratulating Chileans on a “peaceful” demonstration and suggesting a distinction between law-abiding families and criminal hooligans.
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Chile: Water cannons fired at anti-TPP protesters in Valparaiso
Police fired water cannons at protesters demonstrating against the Transpacific Partnership (TPP) in Valparaiso, Tuesday.
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New Zealand earthquak CCTV footage captures a 7.5 magnitude earthquake in Wellington
Chile earthquake: 'The room was shaking'
A tsunami warning has been issued for Chile and Peru's Pacific coast after an earthquake of 8.2 magnitude struck off Chile's coast near Iquique.
British geologist Patrick Moore described how his room shook and he felt that this was a significant earthquake.
Clashes between police and demonstrators over park trees; Ankara demo
Istanbul
++DAY SHOTS++
1. Various of protestors throwing tear gas canisters back at the police
2. Wide of protestors charging towards police carrying makeshift barrier
3. Wide of large crowd of protesters
4. Wide of protesters in an alley
5. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) No name given, protestor:
The only reason (that the court made the decision to stop the trees being uprooted in Taksim Square) is because of our struggle. From five in the morning until now we have been fighting.
6. Mid of protesters waving a flag
7. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Serdar Sanman, protestor:
The attacks (by riot police) are still continuing. He (Prime Minister Erdogan) is not listening to anyone. After three days they (the Turkish government) will suspend or change or abandon it (the court decision). Because he (Erdogan) acts as if he is an Ottoman Sultan, he is trying to install his own dictatorship.
8. Pan of protesters walking down street
9. Wide of street filled with protesters
Ankara
++DAY SHOTS INTO EVENING++
++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
10. Pan of protesters blocking road and waving flags
11. Pull out of protesters getting hosed by riot truck
12. Wide of protester hitting riot truck with flag
13. Various of riot police firing tear gas canisters
14. Wide of street scattered with debris
15. Mid of smashed doors
16. Close up of smashed cash machine
17. Wide of protesters, helmets of riot police in foreground
18. Wide of protesters
++NIGHT SHOTS++
19. Pan from riot truck firing water hose
20. Pan of protesters chasing after riot truck and banging on it
21. Wide of protester in street carrying banner and being sprayed by hose
STORYLINE
Clashes continued in Turkey as night fell on Friday, after Turkish riot police used tear gas and water cannon to end a peaceful sit-in by hundreds of people trying to prevent trees from being uprooted in an Istanbul park.
Police took action on the fourth day of the sit-in against a government plan to revamp Istanbul's main square, Taksim.
Officers clashed with angry demonstrators in surrounding areas, firing tear gas canisters and pushing people back with water cannon.
In a victory for the protesters, an Istanbul court later ordered the temporary suspension of the project to uproot the trees.
But demonstrators around the country kept up protests, denouncing what they called a heavy-handed crackdown and a government seen as displaying increasingly authoritarian tendencies.
The police moved in at dawn to raid the protesters' camp in Istanbul, news spread across the country igniting a furious anti-government protests.
In solidarity with protesters in Istanbul, some 5-thousand people gathered at a park in the capital, Ankara, swelling into a busy street nearby.
They chanted anti-government slogans and called on Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to resign.
Police used tear gas to push back a group that tried to march toward the Parliament building.
The clashes continued in the streets of the city after dark.
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the earthquake moment
the earthquake moment
Chile aftershock causes panic
Frightened residents run to higher ground as a 6.9 magnitude aftershock rocks the streets of Chile.
X'trapolis 'Safety Incident' Display 12/10/18
A very generic delay message being displayed inside an X'trapolis train. Filmed at Heidelberg station on the Hurstbridge line during a disruption, namely a shopping trolley struck by train.
Protesters seize regional offices, Kiev activists angry with president
Anti-government protesters on Saturday seized a regional administration building in the city of Vinnytsia, and officials warned that police could storm the Kiev city hall to free two policemen allegedly captured by demonstrators, as unrest continued in Ukraine.
In Vinnytsia, about 180 kilometres (110 miles) southwest of Kiev, hundreds of demonstrators stormed the local administration building, Ukrainian news agencies said.
Video from the scene showed protesters surging into the building, where a barrier of riot police with shields stopped them from penetrating further.
In the capital Kiev, protests continued in Independence Square where demonstrators have set up an extensive tent camp and conducted round-the-clock protests since early December.
The square is only a few hundred metres (yards) from the city hall which protesters have occupied for nearly two months and turned it into a makeshift dormitory and headquarters.
Officials warned that police could storm the building to free two policemen allegedly captured by demonstrators and held there.
Protesters deny they are holding the officers.
A ministry statement on Saturday warned that police would storm the building if the two officers were not released. It said another officer who had been injured while being seized had been released and was in hospital in serious condition.
Kiev has seen protracted clashes between police and protesters over the past week, and any attempt by police to storm the building would likely spark new violence.
Until the past week, the protests had been centred in Kiev with only smaller demonstrations elsewhere, but since the Kiev clashes began on Sunday, a score of local government buildings have been seized in the country's west, where support for President Viktor Yanukovych is thin.
Yanukovych has refused protesters' demand to resign and call early elections, offering only minor concessions to the opposition on Friday.
Violent clashes then resumed in Kiev's government district, with protesters pelting rocks and fire bombs at police, who responded with stun grenades, tear gas and rubber bullets.
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RR9418/C - CHILE: BIO-BIO RIVER
RR9418/C - CHILE: BIO-BIO RIVER
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Chile is in the grip of a dilemma between the need for economic development and concern for the preservation of the environment. A private energy consortium is building a dam on the Bio-Bio River, a waterway renowned for its beauty and diverse eco-systems, which runs through the territory of the Pehuenche people, one of the five Mapuche cultures in the southern Andes. Conservationists fear the project will cause lasting damage to the region.
SHOWS: Aerial Galletue Lake, source of Bio-Bio River; views of Bio-Bio scenery; scenes of waterfowl, ducks and fish in river; scenes of white water rafters over rapids; ducks and cow in pasture; geese; goats graze and climb trees; local people with ox-cart; goats graze; women walk through field; horses and dancers in Pehuenche ceremony; man beats drum; Concepcion, Bio-Bio region's main city, street scenes and aerial view; construction worker crosses bridge over Bio-Bio; river from bridge; engineer points to dam site; surveyors view dam site; PANGUE dam sign at gate; engineer at map in office showing dam dimensions; detail of plans; rocks in river; steam shovel raking soil at dam site; man in steam shovel cab; steam shovel climbs earth hill; Juan Pablo Orrego, ecologist, at computer; ecological posters on wall; Juan Pablo Orrego in street; Juan Pablo Orrego in street; Juan Pablo Orrego sot; aerial of coast pollution; wood pulping plant along Bio-Bio, logs; pulp on conveyor belt; pipe discharging waste into river; soapy polluted water; exterior, Pangue ecological station and sign; Jorge Bracovic, ecologist, sot in Spanish with English translation; tending plants; sacred Araucarias trees; flowering plant; man throws bolo into tree; bolo wraps itself around nut in tree; man chops nut with axe; scenes of people sorting through nuts on ground; Pehuenche ceremony: scenes of dance, man paints head of horse, woman paints cow, painted legs, dance; anti-dam demonstration in Santiago at energy consortium, ENDESA headquarters; demonstration banners; ENDESA officials; ENDESA public relations spokesman, Gonzalo Benaventa, in Spanish with English translation; Santiago shopping mall; exterior Chilean parliament at Valparaiso; parliament in session; Bio-Bio River and construction; waterfall; anti-dam graffiti in Spanish on rock; river scenes at dusk.
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Earthquake Simulation in Te Papa Part 2
That`s the second part of the Earthquake Simulation in New Zealdns national museum called Te Papa!
Sorry for cutting it into 3 parts!
I`m not very good at taping!
But ennjoy it anyway!
cctv footage of earthquake may 12 ,2015
Riots break out during massive student protest in Chile
More than 100.000 Chilean students and workers packed La Alameda, in the capital Santiago demanding free education for all during a cold and rainy day. The protesters walked in front of the Presidential Palace, La Moneda, and the Ministry of Education.
The Confederation of Chilean Students (Confech) accused the police of suppressing the massive march with attacks and tear gas, despite the fact that they had committed tehmeselves not to intervene.
The main motto of the chilean students protest is In an unequal country we should all fight. Free public education to change society.
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Turkey's Republic Day (for the firewoks lovers)
Celebrating the day Turkey became a Republic!!! Fireworks on the Water