Quinta do Lago fire

Wildfires are scorching an area of Portugal popular with Irish and UK holidaymakers, celebrities and sport stars. According to The Portugal News, fires wh.

The objective is to help fight the fires that break out in the country." Only with the registration done will we be able to value the territory, instead of having a forest patch that generates problems whenever temperatures rise." That, of course, is the priority these days. "Much of our forest patch is abandoned. Keep safe everyone." Also as a precautionary measure, we have decided to close our golf courses, sporting facilities and restaurants.

Portugal on fire: Fires break out as parched country assailed by 'record breaking' temperatures: Evacuations in Algarve and elsewhere.

So far, however, there has only been one death – and even that has to be confirmed as being as a result of a fire: the carbonised body of a woman was found at the scene of a fire in Murtosa, Aveiro, on Tuesday evening. A figure for losses has also not yet been given, simply because the fires remain ongoing: even when they are ‘out’, the likelihood of reignitions remains constant. Under the Situation of Contingency no activities can take place in forested land. Some of the most critical areas close to the fire have been evacuated, as a precaution. But it can never be enough: this is the traditional season for wildfires, and no amount of preparation appears able to change that. An autopsy will establish whether the woman died as a result of the fire, or due to other reasons. Portugal is a tinder-box after an unusually dry winter: dams are at all time lows. It is one of the structural issues we insist on not tackling” – and it has already seen many desperate moments in this last week, as firefighters trying to do their best literally ‘run out of water’. Keep safe”. The country has moved into a Situation of Contingency – following a Situation of Alert – for wildfires: access is prohibited to forested areas/ firefighting teams have been boosted/ any kind of work with machinery that could cause a spark that could lead to a fire has been put on hold. “Good morning everyone… “Following the fire situation in Quinta do Lago, the Management of the Quinta do Lago Group would like to reassure all its residents that is closely monitoring the situation with the competent authorities that are acting onsite.