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Chile’s Incoming President Inherits Crisis as Raging Wildfires Kill 19

Smoke and flames billow from burning houses during a wildfire in Concepcion, Chile, on Jan. 18. 

Photographer: Guillermo Salgado/AFP/Getty Images

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Chilean President-elect José Antonio Kast will inherit a crisis as raging wildfires left at least 19 people dead and hundreds homeless over the weekend, setting up a lengthy reconstruction process on his watch.