Saturday, August 31, 2013

More than 300 firefighters fought seven major fires - Porto24

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More than 300 firefighters backed by 100 vehicles and seven airborne combat the six major forest fires that burn Saturday afternoon in mainland Portugal, with a fire in Satão, Viseu, concentrating most media.

information updated by 14h30 on the website of the National Authority for Civil Protection indicates that some 133 firefighters and 39 vehicles that fight the fire with a front active Two Churches / Ferreira das Aves, Satão county, district Viseu.

beginning on Thursday, this fire has had four active fronts, was dominated by 17h00 on Friday and Saturday at 12h25 reactivated.

Passaginha / Eja, Penafiel, a fire with three fronts ranging from 12h49 is being tackled by three bombers French.

site are thus 64 operating 21 vehicles and three air assets that replaced the two aircraft operated by medium bombers amphibians 10:20, informs the site of Civil Protection.

bush fire, which started at 00h30 on Thursday, was mastered at 5:56 a.m. today, but reactivated by 7:00 a.m.

Three fronts

fire plow also in the municipality of Montalegre, an area covering the location of Fafião in the Peneda Geres.

Twelve vehicles and 53 operational combat this fire, which started early this morning.

In

saw the skeins, Lamego, Viseu district, 42 firefighters supported for ten cars trying to catch the flames which are divided into two fronts.

In the same district, but in the county of Bigorne, a fire started at 11:00 on a front bush that keeps active and involved 12 firefighters and three vehicles.

Abogalheira / Puff, municipality of Marco de Canaveses, 41 operating 12 vehicles and two aerial means fighting a fire with a front active.

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