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Firefighters begin a rescue effort after torrential rain leading to flooding and landslides claimed the lives of six people in the state of Espirito Santo in south-eastern Brazil. IMAGES
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
Images published by Italy’s fire and rescue service show firefighters attempting to put out a fire at the Bellolampo landfill in Sicily's Palermo. IMAGES
Nine people are injured and more than a hundred homes affected by forest fires in south-central Chile, where an intense heat wave is raging. The state of emergency is declared in several regions. IMAGES
Firefighters look for people who may be stuck under the rubble of a three-storey apartment building that collapsed overnight in Sanary-sur-Mer, in the south of France, following an explosion that may have been caused by a gas problem. 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).
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