The fire consumed more than 247 acres (100 hectares) of the island, including the stone quarry from which most of the statues originated
A suspected arson attack on Easter Island created a wildfire that caused"irreparable" damage to some of its famous stone-carved monumental heads, authorities have said.
On Friday , Rapa Nui Mayor Pedro Edmunds Paoa told the Chilean broadcaster Radio PAUTA that the fire wasn't an accident . "As the stone cracks, with a heavy rain or with time, it loosens, falls, ceases to be stone, and becomes sand," he explained, adding that the statues that weren't semi-buried in the earth were the most badly affected. The mayor said that a"shortage of volunteers" meant park officials had struggled to get the fire under control.
This isn't the first time the statues have been mistreated. In 2020, a resident of the island was arrested for damaging one of the sacred statues with a pickup truck. The man left the truck with a rock wedged under its front tire to compensate for a broken parking brake, but the truck freed itself and rolled downhill and smashed into a statue's ceremonial platform.
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