An anticyclone combined with high temperatures has created “a cocktail of dangerous conditions” north of Lisbon.
Three Portuguese firefighters died on Tuesday in one of dozens of forest blazes ravaging the country’s central and northern regions, bringing the death toll from the latest bushfires to seven people since Saturday, authorities said.
Fire burns near homes on the bank of the Vouga river near Sever do Vouga, a town in northern Portugal that has been surrounded by forest fires.National Emergency and Civil Protection Agency commander Andre Fernandes, said 125 fires were recorded between Monday evening and Tuesday morning, Portuguese newspaperreported. Some of the fires were “beyond extinguishing capacity” and crews would focus on “preserving human life and property”.
Fernandes told reporters that three firefighters from the Vila Nova de Oliveirinha fire brigade had died while fighting a fire in Nelas, a town about 300km north-east of Lisbon.Fernandes’ deputy, Mario Silvestre, said earlier the overall situation was “calmer but still worrying and complex ... with many villages and settlements being affected, and the teams very dispersed across this theatre of operations”.
Temperatures topped 30 degrees Celsius across the country over the weekend, when the fires first broke out and were fanned by strong winds.
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