His state Sao Paulo in southeastern Brazil is threatened by the advance fires in bushland, which has prompted authorities to issue a maximum alert in 30 cities and has filled its capital with smoke.

Road traffic has also been disrupted, or even stopped in some places, due to the smoke, which has also reached Sao Paulo, the state capital of the same name.

“With the gusts of wind, the fire it can spread quickly,” state authorities said in a statement, where they also warned the public about the health risks of microparticles.

“We have currently set 30 cities on high alert for large fires and we are working to bring the situation under control and guarantee safety,” said Tarcisio de Freitas, the governor of the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil’s most populous, in a post on X.

The situation is also particularly worrying in São José do Rio Preto, a municipality of 480,000 inhabitants in this state, where more than 335 fire outbreaks were recorded in a few days, causing the closure of schools.

Conditions favor the development of fires, as the temperature reaches 35 degrees Celsius and there is a low percentage of humidity, in the middle of a prolonged period drought.

In the north of the country, the Amazon – the largest tropical forest on the planet – has been destroyed in recent weeks by terrible fires that have broken out due to extreme drought.

Two dead

At the same time, 2 people died in a factory trying to put out the flames.

The authorities announced the death of two workers at a factory in Urupes, in the northern part of the state, during their efforts to extinguish a fire.