More than 400 operational combat fire in the Serra da Estrela Park – Digital Journal

 The fire raging in Serra da Estrela Natural Park, from Monday afternoon, is being fought tonight for 430 operating, assisted by 140 vehicles.
 

According to the page of the National Civil Protection Authority on the Internet, in combating the fire which started at 14:46 on Monday, in the bush, in Senhora do Monte, the Union of parishes and villages Mangualde da Serra, Gouveia municipality, and in the meantime spread at the end of the day, for Butters municipality, was at 20:30 today, to be fought by 430 operating.

Part of the media involved in the transaction are four battle groups Aveiro, Coimbra and Leiria and SEPNA (Protection Service of Nature and the Environment GNR), which were mobilized at the end of the afternoon.

The successive reacendimentos, poor access to the area hit by the flames and the wind, which blows with constant changes of direction, are hindering the action of the fire, told the Lusa agency, the source of the District Command Relief Operations ( . CDOS) Guard

“There are villages threatened” by the flames, said the same source

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