SYDNEY: Dozens of firefighters from Australia and New Zealand departed for the United States to help crews battle deadly blazes that have scorched the country’s drought-ravaged west.
Seventy-one firefighters, including 15 from New Zealand, were flying to the worst-hit state of Idaho and are also being deployed to the affected states of Washington, Montana, Oregon, Idaho and California, Australian authorities said.
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