As his parents fought wildfires threatening their home in southern Chile, 13-year-old Lucas Cespedes decided to take action, ferrying firefighters across the local river in a small yellow rowing boat to help them put out the flames.
in years that have claimed 24 lives and burned through over 340,000 hectares , affecting more than 5,400 people and destroying over a thousand homes.
"I ferried people across the river because I was desperate, my parents were fighting the fire and I was very scared that the fire would reach my house," said Cespedes, who lives with his family in an area only accessible by water.Cespedes rowed the firefighters across 30 meters of the Futa River, a mighty waterway in Chile's south near the city of Valdivia, about 1,000 kilometers south of the capital Santiago. He has kept doing so as fires have raged on.
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