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Firefights combat wildfires in Brazil's Acre state Amazon forest. IMAGES
Firefighters combat wildfires in Brazil's Mato Grosso, an transition region between the Cerrado - tropical savanna - biome and the Amazon rainforest. IMAGES
Firefighters work into the night on Madeira to contain one of the last active wildfires on the island. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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
Chile declared a state of emergency on Friday as officials said 10 people were feared dead in forest fires in the central Valparaiso region, where blazes are threatening hundreds of homes. IMAGES
Firefighters and police use hoses and rakes in an attempt to put out a fire in Nemocon, 60 kilometers north of Colombia's capital Bogota. The South American country has appealed for international aid as it continues to battle dozens of forest fires burning vast swathes of land and encroaching on homes in the capital. IMAGES