Brazil's Sao Paulo state said that wildfire outbreaks were affecting or closing in on 30 of its cities on Friday evening, adding two people had died in an industrial plant trying to hold back the ...

Mr Tarcisio de Freitas, the governor of Sao Paulo, by far the country’s most populous state with some 44 million residents, decreed a state of emergency in 45 municipalities and said two people ...

Amid prolonged drought, Sao Paulo state is experiencing its worst month for fires in decades, with 3,480 separate blazes identified, according to INPE, the National Institute for Space Research.