Hundreds of Volunteers Help Control Wildfire in Brazil

Hundreds of men and women have joined forces with firefighters to help control a wildfire that has ravaged more than a quarter of a national park in Brazil’s central state of Goias.
Brazil’s Environment Ministry said nearly 160,000 acres of the 595,000-acre Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park has burned since it began on October 10.
VOA reported that the recently formed Network Against Fire is a group composed of people residing in areas near the park that provide transportation, meals, and manpower to help the firefighters.
The ministry’s Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation manages the parks.
It said the fire is expected to be extinguished within the next two days.