STORY: Chile's National Service for Disaster Prevention and Response (Senapred) ordered multiple evacuations on Saturday (January 17) as forest fires threatened communities across the southern Biobio and Nuble regions, deploying emergency alert messages to mobile phones in affected areas.

Nuble Regional Director of CONAF, Norma Perez, said crews were battling the fires with all available resources while also responding to 10 additional active fires across the region.

Senapred emphasized that the evacuations were preventive measures and urged residents not to return until authorities provided authorization, calling on the public to follow official channels and cooperate with emergency teams.

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SHOWS: QUILLON, NUBLE REGION, CHILE (JANUARY 17, 2026) (TVN - No use Chile / CNN / Chile website)

1. VARIOUS OF FOREST FIRE, DARK SMOK RISING

2. LARGE SMOKE COLUMN FROM FOREST FIRE IN QUILLON COMMUNE

FLORIDA, BIOBIO REGION, CHILE (JANUARY 17, 2026) (TVN - No use Chile / CNN / Chile website)

3. AIRCRAFT DROPPING FIRE RETARDANT ON FOREST FIRE

QUILLON, NUBLE REGION, CHILE (JANUARY 17, 2026) (ORIGINALLY PORTRAIT) (CONAF HANDOUT - Access all)

4. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) REGIONAL DIRECTOR OF CONAF (FOREST NATIONAL MANAGEMENT CORPORATION), NORMA PEREZ, SAYING:

"We are working with all the resources we have available deployed in all the advancing zones of this fire to try to contain it as soon as possible. Also, I want to inform the community that we have 10 more fires in the region where we have all our resources deployed to try to contain this emergency. That's why I want to reiterate the call to people to take extreme precautionary measures."

FLORIDA, BIOBIO REGION, CHILE (JANUARY 17, 2026) (TVN - No use Chile / CNN / Chile website)

5. SMOKE COLUMN RISING FROM FOREST FIRE BEHIND A HOUSE

6. RESIDENTS DRIVING AWAY

7. VARIOUS OF RESIDENTS EVACUATING

8. RESIDENTS STANDING IN FRONT OF THEIR HOUSE

9. FIREFIGHTERS TALKING

10. FIREFIGHTERS’ HELICOPTER FLYING OVERHEAD