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Brazil adds some to force fighting vast wetlands blazes

by Associated Press
| September 23, 2020 11:31 AM

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's government on Wednesday said it was adding 43 more firefighters to a small force battling blazes that have charred a Belgium-sized swath of the world's largest tropical wetlands.

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