At 10:30 p.m. this Wednesday, more than 600 operatives were fighting three active fires in the Vila Real area, one that broke out on Sunday in Samarda, in that municipality, and two that are working in the municipality of Valpazos, according to Civil Protection. .
According to the official website of the National Office for Emergency Situations and Civil Protection (ANEPC), at 22:30 they were on the ground, fighting eight active fires on the Portuguese mainland, 758 active, supported by 219 vehicles.
The Vila Real area has the most funds concentrated: 390 firefighters and 112 land plots were mobilized in response to the fire that broke out on Sunday in Samarda, in Vila Real, and which reactivated in the second half of this Wednesday after entering the resolution phase this morning .
The resurgence of the fire, caused by changes in weather conditions, namely the direction and strength of the wind on the site, did not endanger the houses, the district commander of relief operations (CODIS) Vila Real said at 20:00. , Miguel Fonseca.
In the municipality of Valpazos, also in the Vila Real district, the fire that broke out on Tuesday in Valverde on Tuesday reactivated this Wednesday “in the same place and in the same line of fire”, as explained by a source in the National Fire Department. Lusa Emergency and Civil Protection (ANEPC).
With an active front, the fire, which mobilized 190 firefighters at 22:30 with the support of 57 vehicles, absorbs a patch of shrub-pine forest and is located in a hard-to-reach zone, which forced an increase in operatives on the ground, the same source emphasized.
Also in the same municipality, a fire broke out in Lamas this Wednesday at 5:35 pm, leaving 61 workers and 19 land assets on the ground at 10:30 pm.
In Villele, municipality of Cabeceiras de Basto, district of Braga, a fire has been raging since 19:33, involving 76 firefighters with the support of 21 land resources.
There were 734 firefighters and 213 vehicles on the ground in the Portuguese mainland in the follow-up or consolidation action at 22:30, for a total of 34 cases.
According to the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and the Atmosphere (IPMA), more than 60 municipalities in the areas of Vila Real, Viseu, Bragança, Guarda, Castelo Branco, Santarém and Portalegre pose the highest fire risk in this environment.
IPMA has also placed several municipalities in Braga, Vila Real, Viseu, Aveiro, Coimbra, Santarem, Leiria, Castelo Branco, Portalegre, Lisbon, Évora, Beja and Faro in very high and high risk of rural fires.
According to the institute, the risk of rural fires in some regions of the continent will remain high until at least Sunday.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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