More than 1,000 Firefighters Deployed to Northern Portugal Fires
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More than 1,000 firefighters deployed to northern Portugal fires
Over 1,000 firefighters are deployed across several wildfire incidents in northern Portugal this Wednesday morning (August 19). The fires in Torre de Moncorvo, Arouca and Santo Tirso continued to have The post More than 1,000 firefighters deployed to northern Portugal fires appeared first on Portugal Resident.
Fire loves the villages of the North and Center. Arouca, Torre de Moncorvo and Santo Tirso mobilized a thousand firefighters.
The fires of Arouca and Torre de Moncorvo concentrate much of the means, with almost a thousand operatives on the ground.
Commander Paulo Santos, commentator of CNN Portugal, emphasizes that the situation in Arouca is especially "complex", when compared to two other major active fires in Portugal, one in Torre de Moncorvo and the other in Santo Tirso.
More than 1,100 operatives today fought at 18:00 the three largest active fires in Portugal, in Torre de Moncorvo, Santo Tirso and Arouca, supported by 345 cars and 10 air vehicles, according to the Civil Protection.
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