"CAPILLA DEL MONTE, Argentina - Wildfires have burned through 40,000 hectares (400 square kilometers) of Argentina's central farming region of Cordoba, according to officials, leaving charred cattle, houses, forests and fields in their wake.
Images from the hard-hit town of Capilla del Monte in the key ranching region showed cows completely burned and blackened amid scenes of decimated plants and trees. Locals described the sound of the blazes as like a "monster".
"It was a sound like a turbine, like a growl, it sounded like a monster, literally. And we escaped. We escaped from something that was coming to eat us," said Hugo Ávila, a 50-year-old artist, who fled his home as the fire approached.
"We fled down the road, with the car, with my dogs and with the neighbors. And 15 minutes later I came back and this was it. Everything was on fire, a house reduced to nothing.""
Luciano Gonzalez, Juan Bustamante, and Eliana Raszewski report for Reuters September 25, 2024.
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