Fire Chief Severely Burned on a 12 Acre Wildfire in Chile.

"One of the functions of the brigade chiefs is to check the condition of the fire; the rest of what happened is the reason for an investigation."

A wildfire supervisor with 7 years of in-the-field experience was severely burned while “checking on a fire” in Los Alamos, Chile. The fire was only 12 acres at the time, 5 hectares, and the fire's activity was reported not to be that aggressive.

This is the only footage I could find of the incident in Los Alamos, which was taken by a National Defense F…