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Chilean authorities arrested 22-year-old volunteer firefighter Francisco Mondaca and former forestry official Franco Pinto over the weekend after prosecutors charged the men with causing massive fires in February that left 137 dead and over 16,000 homeless in central Chile.the situation as the worst tragedy in Chile since 2010, when a magnitude-8.8 earthquake and subsequent tsunami left over 500 dead and thousands injured in the South American nation.
According to the investigations, Pinto taught Mondaca how to manufacture simple incendiary devices, which the 22-year-old used to generate four incendiary lights — two of which were controlled by local firefighting authorities. The other two managed to cause the deadly fires in Valparaíso. “Therefore, we agreed that I would go in the morning hours of that day to the Las Tablas sector and Camino Viejo a Santiago to set fires by throwing incendiary devices that he had verbally taught me to make in another fire, where Franco told me that I should wrap matches around a cigarette and tie it with a thread,” Mondaca reportedly stated.
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