Brazilian troops begin deploying to fight Amazon fires

Neri dos Santos Silva (center) watches an encroaching fire after digging trenches to keep the flames from spreading to the farm he works on, in the Nova Santa Helena municipality, in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, on Friday.
Leo Correa | AP
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