A forest firefighter was seriously injured this Saturday in a fire large that went from Arouca to the municipality of S. Pedro do Sul. The fireman Afocelca paper companies association had burns “very serious” reason which, after being transported to the hospital of Viseu, he had to head to university hospitals in Coimbra. According to the mayor, Victor Figueiredo, the man had gone to recognition in the Arada mountain when he was struck by the flames.
Burn Unit Source of Hospital and University of Coimbra ( Chuc) said madruaga Sunday Lusa that the forest firefighter is in “very poor prognosis,” no advance “more information”.
the fire raging for almost a week in Arouca went to district of Viseu and several villages in the municipality of S. Pedro do Sul, scattered around the Serra de S. Macarius, they were surrounded by flames. Dozens of people had to be taken from the places where they live. The fire left a trail of destroyed homes in its path. After an alert night population and firefighters received the help of air assets and various corporations in the south of Portugal. However, firefighters complain that the lack of resources joins now also the lack of command. “We now have more corporations, but there is no one to tell them where to go,” says a forest firefighter.
On the roof of a house in the middle of the village of Ervilhal a mask man and hose in hand looking at Serra de S. Macarius, in the municipality of S. Pedro do Sul, in the hope that the flames to go astray, as columns of fire coming from Vila Real de Santo António, Lagos, Silves and Setúbal, to prevent this village suffer the same as other neighboring: homes destroyed and evacuated villages. “Who knew Arouca came here!” Could be heard to say.
In a press conference on the evening of Saturday, the operational commander of the National Civil Protection Authority, José Manuel Moura explained that this was the most worrying fire the country, because their struggle was revealed “very difficult. At the time, there were 15 active fires, five of them to receive greater concern: in addition to the Sao Pedro do Sul, which mobilized more than 700 operations, 200 vehicles and seven air assets, of which six Canadair planes, the flames licked Salvaterra de Magos, Ponte de Lima, Alijó and Albergaria-a-Velha. The two Russian planes that arrived in Portugal may join the fight tomorrow, he added the same official.
From hoes and branches in hand, residents of Macieira spent the Sabbath day to look at all sides to try to understand where they came from the fronts of several fires that came down the mountain. This town, which in the height of summer triples the number of inhabitants, preparing to spend the second night on the alert, instead of the expected end-of-week festival, which was eventually canceled. The village was surrounded by the same flames that hours before had destroyed six houses in Soito and forced the withdrawal of 12 people. In this small place, some homes that serve as holiday homes or end-of-week were burned. Other still managed to be saved.
“The house of my mother burned. She did not live there permanently, but there had all his things, “lamented Catia Almeida as covered the distance of about three kilometers that links Apple to Soito. On one side and the other, smoke, black floor, farmland destroyed, fallen electricity poles and utility stores still taken by flames. Once we arrived in Soito, what he saw was a scenario “of war.” Houses without roofs, fallen walls, wood burning. “This is unbelievable,” she would open.
According to the president of the St. Martin Parish Council Moitas and Covas do Rio, from Friday night, the fires had consumed 80 percent of the land parish. In the evening, the fronts have left the village to rest and went down the slope to the south. Also in this town the population was alert and many residents willingly, chose to leave their homes until the situation calm.
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