VIDEO SHOWS: DRONE FOOTAGE OF FLOODED HOUSES / RESIDENTS PADDLING THE STREETS ON BOATS / SOUNDBITES FROM RESIDENT, OFFICIALS

STORY: Drone footage captured the scale of flooding in southern Chile this past week, after a series of weather fronts caused rivers to overflow. Successive weather fronts have battered the southern Biobío region since July, causing rivers to overflow. Disaster prevention agency SENAPRED issued an alert on Saturday (August 1) over the risk of rising water levels in the Curanilahue and Rana rivers and the Plegarias estuary. SENAPRED also kept a yellow alert in place on Wednesday (August 5) due to rising levels at the Ralco reservoir, adding that a preventive, gradual discharge had begun after the reservoir reached 724.60 meters above sea level. The agency said a new front was expected to hit Biobío on Wednesday, bringing moderate to heavy rain, with rainfall totals of up to 50 millimeters. Authorities urged residents to stay away from rivers, streams and other watercourses. (Editing: Jorge Vega. Writing: Anna Portella. Production: Anna Portella)

DESCRIPCIÓN DE IMÁGENES

SHOWS: CURANILAHUE, BIOBIO REGION, CHILE (AUGUST 4, 2026) (TVN - No use Chile / No use CNN / No use Chile websites) (MUTE)

1. VARIOUS OF DRONE FOOTAGE OF FLOODED HOUSES

CURANILAHUE, BIOBIO REGION, CHILE (AUGUST 5, 2026) (TVN - No use Chile / No use CNN / No use Chile websites)

2. VARIOUS OF RESIDENT GETTING ON BOAT TO PADDLE DOWN THE STREET

3. VARIOUS OF RESIDENTS ON BOAT MOVING TOWARD A HOUSE

4. VARIOUS OF RESIDENT PLACING A LADDER TO GET INTO A HOUSE

5. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) CURANILAHUE MAYOR, JACOBO MARTINEZ, SAYING:

"We cannot simply remove (the water) with motor pumps, because we have flooding from two rivers that converge precisely in those low-lying areas of our municipality."

6. RESIDENT OF FLOODED HOUSE, OTHER RESIDENTS CLIMBING STAIRS TO HELP HIM

7. FLOODED STREET

8. FLOODWATER ENTERING THROUGH WINDOW

9. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) RESIDENT, PATRICK UGARTE, SAYING:

"They called us to tell us that the house had flooded. We got here and, as you can see, we cannot go in at all, and we lost everything. Everything is under water."

CURANILAHUE, BIOBIO REGION, CHILE (AUGUST 4, 2026) (TVN - No use Chile / No use CNN / No use Chile websites) (MUTE)

10. DRONE FOOTAGE OF FLOODED HOUSES

RALCO, BIO BIO REGION, CHILE (AUGUST 5, 2026) ) (TVN - No use Chile / No use CNN / No use Chile websites)

11. VARIOUS OF RESERVOIR GATES OPENING TO RELEASE WATER

CONCEPCION, BIOBIO REGION, CHILE (AUGUST 5, 2026) (TVN - No use Chile / No use CNN / No use Chile websites)

12. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) GENERAL DIRECTOR OF DIRECCTION GENERAL DE AGUAS FOR BIO BIO, MATIAS MENDOZA, SAYING:

"Today the weather front is already moving away from us. It is true that we still have rainfall, but it is already moving away. So this allows us to carry out a controlled discharge, which also allows us to say that we are not going to have a significant impact on the riverbed. In fact, the stations downstream from the power plants are below the blue threshold, except for Biobio at its mouth."

RALCO, BIO BIO REGION, CHILE (AUGUST 5, 2026) (TVN - No use Chile / No use CNN / No use Chile websites)

13. VARIOUS OF RESERVOIR GATES OPENING TO RELEASE WATER

14. RIVER

ANGOL, ARAUCANIA, CHILE (AUGUST 4, 2026) (TVN - No use Chile / No use CNN / No use Chile websites)

15. RESIDENT BEING RESCUED FROM FLOODS

16. VARIOUS OF RESIDENTS ON TOP OF TRUCK THROWING AWAY BELONGINGS THAT WERE DAMAGED BY THE RAIN

17. VARIOUS OF SANDBAGS PROTECTING HOUSES FROM RAIN

CURANILAHUE, BIOBIO REGION, CHILE (AUGUST 3, 2026) (TVN - No use Chile / No use CNN / No use Chile websites)

18. VARIOUS OF LIVESTOCK BEING RESCUED FROM FLOODWATER

CURANILAHUE, BIOBIO REGION, CHILE (AUGUST 4, 2026) (TVN - No use Chile / No use CNN / No use Chile websites) (MUTE)

19. DRONE FOOTAGE OF COWS TRAPPED IN FIELD AFTER THE IMPERIAL RIVER OVERFLOWED