The Chilean Army uses a Cessna C208B Grand Caravan to detect forest fires in Araucania

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The Army of Chile deployed a Cessna C208B Grand Caravan of the Airplane Battalion The Independence of the Army Aviation Brigade (Bave) to monitor forest fires and detect the appearance of new fire sources in the Region of La Araucanía.This area of the south of the country, which keeps in curfew, from 22:00 hours to 06:00 in the morning, to the communes of Angol, Collipuli, Ercilla, Traiguén, Lumaco and Galvarino, recorded on 13 January a total o…

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As part of the efforts made by the Chilean Air Force to combat the forest fires affecting the Araucanía Region, the Maquehue Air Base, located in Padre Las Casas (Temuco) has become a strategic center of operations, from where own helicopters and aircraft of other state agencies and security forces work in the containment of fire.The operations include the use of aircraft of the National Forestry Corporation (CONAF), a Bell 412 helicopter of the…