With the country on alert because of the heatwave, the national territory is already seeing the first major wildfires of the season. According to the Civil Protection Authority, 62 incidents were recorded between midnight and 3 p.m. this Thursday, some of them overnight.
One of them is the large fire currently burning in the municipality of Vouzela. According to Mário Silvestre, National Commander of the National Civil Protection Authority (ANPC), the blaze broke out at around 3 a.m. and is still ‘burning in a very complex area’. According to data on the Civil Protection website, at 4.15 p.m. the fire was being tackled by 303 personnel, 90 ground assets and four aerial resources.
