Portuguese fire-fighters are battling just one wildfire after some 650 firefighters managed to contain two other fires blazing in the country’s north since Friday, rescue services said yesterday.
More than 500 fire-fighters and 75 soldiers used over 100 vehicles, three helicopters and a waterbombing plane to contain a fire raging in Sao Pedro do Sul, in the Viseu region, civil defence services said on its website.
Three people suffered slight injuries on Saturday and a fireman was killed on Monday when a truck transporting him, rolled over.
Another fire raging since Friday in Tabuaco, also in the Viseu area, was contained by 150 fire-fighters, 40 vehicles and two helicopters.
Civil defence services said firefighters were now battling only one “significant” fire, burning since Saturday near the national park of Peneda-Geres in the northwest region of Braga.