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Added on the 13/09/2019 08:41:43 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Images show firefighters at the site of a motorcycle warehouse that caught fire in an industrial area of Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. IMAGES
Spanish firefighters battle a wildfire that has already burnt more than 1.500 hectares in Valverdejo, near Cuenca, Western Spain. The fire, which is still not under control, remains under a high level of vigilance, while temperatures are very high. For the time being, the flames are not threatening the surrounding population. IMAGES
Firefighters try to put out a blaze as regional authorities in Brazil declare a state of emergency amid "out of control fires" in the Pantanal, the world's largest tropical wetlands. IMAGES
Images of firefighters attempting to put out fires in Brazil's Pantanal. The country registered a record number of forest fires from January to April 2024, with more than 17,000 identified, more than half in the Amazon, according to official figures. IMAGES
Firefighters from the ICMBio (Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation), Brazil's federal protected areas agency, use helicopters and make firebreaks to combat a blaze in the Amazon rainforest. Nearly 3,000 forest fires were registered in the Brazilian Amazon in February 2024, the highest for any February since records began in 1999, and made more likely by climate change, according to experts. IMAGES