‘A tornado of fire’: How El Niño sparked Chile’s worst firestorm

At least 131 people have died, with a further 370 still missing in Chile 's wildfire.

The wildfire is the worst disaster to hit Chile for more than a decade .

Experts are now asking: What’s causing these infernos? And is there anything that can’t be done to stop them?.

Wildfires have become three times as common in Chile in recent years , according to a recent report in Nature .

Extreme weather conditions “fire weather” are responsible for their rapid spread.

Experts say the main anomaly on the day of last week’s inferno was the extreme temperatures.