Brazil is still battling tens of thousands of fires fueled by the country's worst drought, and large cities such as Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro are at risk, AFP reported, quoted by BTA.
"The federal government, in cooperation with state and municipal authorities, is working to fight the fires,” President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva wrote on the social network "Bluesky" - the alternative solution to "X", which was banned in Brazil.
In the first 12 days of September this year, there were more fires than in all of September 2023 - 49,266 fires compared to 46,486, according to data from the National Space Institute based on satellite data.
As of midnight Thursday, 60.7 percent of the fires recorded in September in South America were burning in Brazil, according to the same source. Many of these fires are in key biodiversity areas such as the Amazon, Cerrado and Pantanal.
The fires have also spread to cities, including Sao Paulo, where fires engulfed northern neighborhoods yesterday. A police helicopter was trying to extinguish a forest fire near the Brasilandia favela, AFP found.