Tag Archives: Brazil

11-member team will help firefighting and search and rescue     JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel says it will be dispatching a team of firefighters to assist Brazil with combatting the fires that have consumed large swaths of the country’s Amazon ...

It was unclear how exactly the new money would be administered     By LUIS ANDRES HENAO and CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA Associated Press PORTO VELHO, Brazil (AP) — The Group of Seven nations on Monday pledged tens of millions of dollars ...

44,000 troops back by military aircraft begin fighting fires     By MARCELO SILVA de SOUSA Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Backed by military aircraft, Brazilian troops on Saturday were deploying in the Amazon to fight fires that ...

Official says 160,000 acres of national park were burned By STAN LEHMAN SAO PAULO (AP) — Firefighters in Brazil have mostly controlled a wildfire that has destroyed more than a quarter of a national park in the central state of ...