Portugal on alert due to the risk of fires from today until Tuesday – Portugal
Portugal entered this Sunday, at 00:00, in a situation of alert due to the “aggravation of the risk of rural fire” and the increase in temperatures, after weeks with fires that, in the Serra da Estrela alone, destroyed more than 28 thousand hectares.
The alert situation, announced on Friday, but formalized on Saturday, by decision of the Ministries of Internal Affairs, National Defence, Labour, Health, Environment and Agriculture, extraordinary preventive measures and will be reassessed by the Government on Monday. .
From Sunday to Tuesday, it is forbidden to circulate or remain in forest areas after the Municipal Plans for the Defense of the Forest Against Fires, as well as on forest, rural paths and other roads that work in forest spaces burned with the use of any type of machinery. , with the exception of those related to firefighting.
It is also allowed to authorize other Ministries, being allowed the use of authorizations to be authorized also to be authorized the use of Internships as use of authorization of authorization of other Ministries, being also allowed the use of authorizations of the Administration.
The fire brigade device will also be reinforced with the contracting of up to 100 pieces of equipment, subject to the availability of fire brigades, according to the fire brigades.
The Minister of Internal Administration, José Luís Carneiro, justified the Government’s decision regarding the risk of fire with three factors: the new peak of heat that will be felt in the coming days, starting on Sunday, could reach temperatures above 40 degrees, the winds that can vary between 40 and 60 kilometers per hour, and, finally, the situation of severe and extreme drought in a large part of the national territory.
During the Saturday of Saturday, the fires in Ourém, de Santarém, and the district of Santarém were controlled, on Friday, the fire district of fires, during more than one aviary, also observed the fire of several euros of diversion and forced to the attention, for more than six hours, of the carrier on the Northern line.
The Government estimates that, since the beginning of the year, 92,000 hectares have already burned in fires, the Secretary of State for Civil Protection, Patrícia Gaspar, told SIC-Notícias on Friday.
The Estrela Natural Park has been affected, since Serra da Serra da Estrela has been affected, since its forests, 25% of nature, according to the areas of July and 25% of it caused great problems of nature “many problems in places of ecological sensitivity and the Institute for Ecological Conservation and the Institute for Ecological Conservation (ICNF).