Hundreds of firefighters backed up by helicopters, fire engines and police water cannon continued their battle against wildfires in the eastern German states of Brandenburg and Saxony on Friday. No new major fires had broken out by midday on Friday, and the authorities were hoping that a forecast for rain over Saxony on Saturday would prove accurate. In Saxony, the fire is raging through a national park, having spread from the neighbouring Czech Republic. The fire broke out last weekend in the Bohemian Switzerland national park in the Czech Republic and spread to the Saxon Switzerland park on …