“All the fronts that were still active yesterday and early today have been brought under control,” the country’s civil protection chief, Andre Fernandez, said during a press conference. Wildfires have ravaged the north and central parts of the country this week, killing seven people and burning 1,000,000 hectares of vegetation to ashes, emergency services said. Although the drop in temperature and rainfall have helped put out the fires, the heavy rains expected in the coming days could trigger landslides in areas affected by the fires, he warned. Since Saturday, firefighters have battled more than a thousand fires, with sweltering heat and gusty winds fueling the flames. 1,200,000 hectares Dozens of these fires broke out in the province of Aveiro (north), where four fronts spread over a perimeter of 100 kilometers and destroyed about 200,000 hectares of vegetation, according to an estimate published yesterday […]
Source: News Beast
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