Overseas experts boost fire effort 外國(guó)專家赴美救火

Fires rage on despite cooler weekend temperatures

周末氣溫下降，火勢(shì)依然兇猛

Seventy specialist firefighters from Australia and New Zealand have arrived in the western United States to join the battle against huge forest fires.

The crews are expected to be sent to Montana, the worst affected state where 13,000 firefighters, marines and national guardsmen are fighting huge fires in tinder-dry conditions.

Fifty homes have already been razed to the ground and 2,000 more are in the path of the inferno.

Overall, 69 fires are now believed to have destroyed 923,000 acres of forest in 11 states.

70名來(lái)自澳大利亞和新西蘭的滅火專家已抵達(dá)美國(guó)西部，參加這場(chǎng)超規(guī)模的滅火大戰(zhàn)。

這批專家將被派往火勢(shì)最嚴(yán)重的蒙特納州，在那里，13,000名消防隊(duì)員、水兵和預(yù)備役隊(duì)員在極其干燥的環(huán)境下與大火搏斗。

已有50間房屋被夷為平地，另有2,000間房屋危在旦夕。

據(jù)信現(xiàn)在共有69處大火，已燒毀11個(gè)州的923,000英畝森林。