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Spain's Military Emergency Services release dramatic video showing firefighters battling wildfires that are ravaging Galicia and threatening homes in the area. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Firefighters in northern Spain struggle to contain scores of fires sparked by unusually warm temperatures and a lack of rain, emergency officials say. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
More than 300 firefighters tackle forest fires in Mangualde in northern Portugal, which were later extinguished. One man has been detained on suspicion of arson. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Forest and brush fires tear through parts of Chile forcing residents to evacuate as fire-fighters struggle to contain the blazes that started over the weekend. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Firefighters from the ICMBio (Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation), Brazil's federal protected areas agency, use helicopters and make firebreaks to combat a blaze in the Amazon rainforest. Nearly 3,000 forest fires were registered in the Brazilian Amazon in February 2024, the highest for any February since records began in 1999, and made more likely by climate change, according to experts. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).