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Disaster-hit Chilean park sows seeds of fire resistance / 36QY9WQ
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After a wildfire that devastated Chile's largest botanical garden, the century-old park has planted thousands of native trees that it hopes are less likely to go up in flames.
Last year's inferno -- considered the deadliest in Chile's recent history -- killed 136 people, razed entire neighborhoods and destroyed 90 percent of the 400-hectare (990-acre) garden in the coastal city of Vina del Mar.
Park director Alejandro Peirano thinks it is only a matter of time before the wildfires return.
"One way or another, we're going to have a fire. That's for sure," he says, standing under one of the trees that survived the flames. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES [+ ARCHIVES IMAGES 04:13:12-05:10:18]