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Laila Afifa
TEMPO.CO, Sao Paulo - 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 flames
The state government also warned that forest fires could spread rapidly from gusts of wind
potentially razing large areas of natural vegetation
the government has not reported flames directly reaching the city of Sao Paulo
Latin America's largest by population with more than 11 million residents
local media reported smoke blocking out some parts of the state capital's sky
The government said two employees at an industrial plant in the city of Urupes had died on Friday while fighting a fire
Earlier in the day Raizen (RAIZ4.SA) the world's largest sugarcane processor
said that industrial operations at a plant in Sertaozinho had been halted since Thursday due to fires in sugarcane fields around the plant
The Sao Paulo state government has created an emergency committee to handle the fires
which had also blocked some 15 highways either fully or partially
Brazil's wildfire season typically peaks in August and September
This year wildfires started unusually early in Pantanal, the world's largest wetlands, in late May, while the number of fires in the Amazon rainforest surged to a two-decade high for July
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