The sacred statues are at least 500 years old.
View of Moais -- stone statues of the Rapa Nui culture -- in Easter Island, 3700 km off the Chilean coast in the Pacific Ocean, on August 5, 2022. A fire that ripped through part of Chile's Easter Island this week has caused permanent damage to some of its iconic carved stone figures known as moai, authorities said.
The fire this week blazed through 104 acres and particularly affected an area inside the volcano where there are around 100 moais, around 20 percent of which have been damaged, Edmunds Paoa said. There are also some damaged structures outside the volcano.The high temperatures calcinate the stone of the moais, which leads it to "crack" and with time "it starts to collapse," Edmunds Paoa told a local radio station.
Ninoska Huki, the local head of the National Forest Corporation, had said earlier that the island lacked firefighters.
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