SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s Sao Paulo state mentioned wildfire outbreaks have been affecting or approaching 30 of its cities on Friday evening, including that two folks had died at a manufacturing facility making an attempt to place out the blaze.
The cities have been affected by scorching and dry climate in current days, the federal government mentioned in a press release.
The state authorities additionally warned that bushfires might unfold shortly as a consequence of gusty winds, doubtlessly leveling giant swathes of pure vegetation.
There are at present no reviews from the federal government that the fires have unfold on to São Paulo, Latin America’s most populous metropolis with greater than 11 million residents.
Nonetheless, native media reported that smoke obscured the sky over components of the state capital.
Two staff at a manufacturing facility within the metropolis of Urupez died whereas combating a hearth on Friday, the federal government mentioned, with out offering additional particulars.
Earlier within the day, Raizen, the world’s largest sugar cane processor, mentioned industrial operations at a manufacturing facility in Sertaozinho had been halted since Thursday as a consequence of a hearth within the cane fields surrounding the plant.
The Sao Paulo state authorities established an emergency committee to take care of the hearth, which additionally utterly or partially blocked about 15 highways.
Brazil’s wildfire season sometimes peaks in August and September.
This yr’s wildfires within the Pantanal, the world’s largest wetland, began unusually early in late Might, whereas the variety of fires within the Amazon (NASDAQ: ) rainforest surged to a 20-year excessive in July, authorities knowledge confirmed earlier this month.
