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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/tv-viewers-hear-screams-of-inmates.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Distraught relatives of inmates gather at the San Miguel prison in Chile" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-tv-viewers-hear-screams-of-inmates.jpg" alt="Distraught relatives of inmates gather at the San Miguel prison in Chile"/></a></p>
<p>A fire started during an inmate brawl tore through an overcrowded prison in Chile, killing at least 81 people and seriously injuring 14.</p>
<p>Viewers heard the screams of inmates after a prisoner using an illegal mobile phone called state television for help.</p>
<p>The blaze at San Miguel prison, which preliminary reports indicated may have been set deliberately, was the worst disaster in the history of Chile&#8217;s penal system, health minister Jaime Manalich said.</p>
<p>The fire began during fighting between inmates and reached its maximum intensity in just three minutes, interior minister Rodribo Hinzpeter said. It was brought under control in three hours.</p>
<p>Police operations director Jaime Concha insisted police acted quickly despite coping with 1,900 inmates at the prison built for 700.</p>
<p>Chilean television broadcast spine-chilling audio and video from the prison fire, some of it shot by prisoners using banned phones and sent to stations.</p>
<p>The state channel aired a recording of an inmate calling from inside the prison and pleading for help. Screams could be heard in the background. Other broadcasts showed the smoked-filled prison tower and inmates shouting over and over, &#8220;The doors!&#8221; and &#8220;We&#8217;re burning!&#8221;.</p>
<p>Private Mega TV broadcast a recording made by a prisoner of inmates in the burning tower screaming &#8220;Help! Help! Open the doors!&#8221;</p>
<p>Santiago region governor Fernando Echeverria said the official death toll was 81. Many of the bodies were unrecognisable and officials said most would have to be identified by DNA.</p>
<p>Firefighters said they were alerted by a call from a mobile phone inside the prison, a collection of cement towers that rises above a middle class neighbourhood in Chile&#8217;s capital.</p>
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