Brazil sends Hercules warplanes to dump water on burning Amazon

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Brazil sends warplanes to dump tens of thousands of gallons of water on the burning Amazon

Thousands of wildfires have affected at least 20 per cent across Brazil's Amazon rainforest. President Jair Bolsonaro deployed converted Hercules warplanes to dump water across burning areas. Also sent 44,000 troops to help four states - Roraima, Rondonia, Tocantins and Para - contain the fires.

 

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Well America was good at spraying agent orange over Vietnam so maybe they could join in spraying chemical flame retardant over rainforest?

Three weeks later.. . .very suspicious

Its about time they did! I also heard that it started to rain.

Took them long enough! Hopefully the world will adapt all their warplanes for doing good in the world rather than war 😊

Now this is good news..warplane instead of killing ppl they are put to some kibd usefulness thing

I recommend also to watch the news directly from govbr and tvbrasilgov for updates!

Finally doing some good act

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