Twelve people survived one of Portugal's deadliest fires by seeking ... spent more than six hours in the tank as the fire prevented them from being rescued. "If it wasn't for this, we would ...
This it traces back to the government's failure to implement fully a forest fire protection plan proposed more than 10 years ago. That may have been compounded by Portugal's debt crisis ...
The death toll from two weeks of record blazes rose to 16 when a firefighter, who had been burned in a forest fire in central Portugal last week, died of his injuries late Wednesday night.
Athens' Parthenon in solidarity with Portugal. A large-scale tragedy felt all over Europe. Over 1,700 firefighters continued to battled a large-scale forest fire Monday in Portugal that has ...
Fire and smoke are seen during a forest fire in Mega Fungueira, in central Portugal, June 18, 2017. (Photo Courtesy, REUTERS) A huge forest fire raging since Saturday in central Portugal has ...
And natural fire fuels that usually stop growing during ... Another problem for the management of eucalyptus is that the almost all forest in Portugal is in the hands of the private sector ...
Portugal entered a state of alert due to the ... in forest areas previously defined in the Municipal Plans for Forest Fire Defence, as well as in forest paths, rural roads and other routes ...