After declaring it under control from Friday evening to Saturday, on Monday afternoon the fire was renewed “violently”, fueled by “strong winds”, Andre Fernandez, head of the Civil Protection Agency, told reporters Monday evening. in Portugal. He explained that several villages were evacuated as a precautionary measure.
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The fire in the Serra da Estrela, the largest quest’summer in Portugal covered 15,000 hectares, according to the latest preliminary data announced by the Portuguese authorities. This fire, which broke out on 6 August near Covilha (center), destroyed the unique wooded areas of this UNESCO World Heritage Site, in the middle of the Serra da Estrela mountain range, which is about two thousand meters high. While the civil defense command was targeted for its mismanagement of operations, Interior Minister Jose Luis Carneiro promised on Monday to begin assessing the “cause structural “and the” technique of fighting “the fires once the fire in the Serra da Estrela has gone out.
Portugal, who questyear is facing an exceptional drought, having had its hottest July in nearly a century. About 80,000 hectares have been burned since the beginning of the year,area largest since the 2017 fires that killed 100 people, according to the latest report from the Institute for Nature and Forest Conservation.