BRASÍLIA: “Wildfire Blazes Near Brazil Capital”, Brazilian firefighters were battling a blaze on Sunday (Sep 15) in Brasilia National Park, a nature reserve located just outside the capital.
The blaze is the biggest Brasilia has seen this year, as the city hits 145 days without rain
Some 1,200ha have burned, according to the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation, responsible for the administration of Brazil’s national parks.
The fire came the same day that Supreme Court Justice Flavio Dino authorised the government to exceed existing spending limits to finance the fight against a “fire pandemic”.
“We cannot deny maximum and effective aid … under the justification of complying with an accounting rule that is not in the Constitution,” said Dino, formerly President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s justice minister.
In recent days smoke has clouded Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, as well as parts of Argentina and Uruguay.
