Brazil warplanes help fight Amazon fires

By Jake Spring and Ricardo Moraes
Updated August 26 2019 - 2:43pm, first published 2:40pm
Brazil has stepped up efforts to fight the fires ravaging the Amazon, sending in troops and planes.
Brazil has stepped up efforts to fight the fires ravaging the Amazon, sending in troops and planes.

Brazilian warplanes are dumping water on the burning forest in the Amazon state of Rondonia, responding to a global outcry over the destruction of the world's largest tropical rain forest.

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