Overseas experts boost fire effort 外国专家赴美救火

Fires rage on despite cooler weekend temperatures

周末气温下降，火势依然凶猛

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名来自澳大利亚和新西兰的灭火专家已抵达美国西部，参加这场超规模的灭火大战。

这批专家将被派往火势最严重的蒙特纳州，在那里，13,000名消防队员、水兵和预备役队员在极其干燥的环境下与大火搏斗。

已有50间房屋被夷为平地，另有2,000间房屋危在旦夕。

据信现在共有69处大火，已烧毁11个州的923,000英亩森林。