Brazil says thousands of troops available to combat forest fires
30PM [Updated: Sat Aug 24, 2019 10:22PM ]/ Smoke from a fire out of control on a farm along a highway fills the air in Nova Santa Helena municipality in northern Mato Grosso State, south in the Amazon basin in Brazil, on August 23, 2019. (Photo by AFP)/ Brazil has 44,000 troops stationed in its northern Amazon region that are available to combat forest fires and could send more from elsewhere in the country, the joint chief of staff for the country's military said on Saturday (August 24). In a briefing with reporters, joint military chief ...
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