A fireman who participates in the fight against fires in the north and the center of Portugal died “In service” Sunday, during a “Road accident”According to a press release from the Portuguese presidency. The accident has also made “Two seriously injured” Among his colleagues, the Portuguese president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said, who paid tribute to them “Uninterrupted dedication”. This firefighter is the second fatal victim of fires in Portugal this year, after death on Friday in Guarda, in the east of the country, of a former mayor who fought against the flames.
On Monday morning, around 2,000 firefighters were still working hard to combat different houses in the north and the center of the country. Arganil’s Brand, in the middle of the country, mobilized a thousand firefighters alone. The government has also activated the civil protection mechanism of the European Union, such as neighboring Spain. The country is waiting for the arrival on Monday of two Swedish fire -resistant aircraft, while the Canadair is mobilized by Morocco until Wednesday last week, said the Portuguese Minister of the Interior, Maria Lucia Amaral.
Portugal has expanded the exceptional fire prevention measures until Tuesday, in particular access to certain forest areas or the use of fireworks. Since the beginning of the year, almost 185,000 hectares have risen in smoke, an area that is already larger than that of that in 2024 (about 136,000 hectares), according to provisional data from the Institut des Forêts.
“National pact in the light of climate emergency” in Spain
In Spain, a firefighter in the northwest of the country died after an accident, the government of the Castille-et-Léon region reported on Monday, which means that the number of deaths in the fires that Spain have destroyed for more than a week. The local government “Death death” A fireman in the “Reversal” A vehicle that carries water, according to a message on social network X.
The accident occurred when the convoy that it belonged to this vehicle went off the fire to take a very tilted forest. “For an unknown reason, the vehicle approached and swollen the dike, on a slope of a high drop of” fallen “the local government added.
More than 70,000 hectares have been burned in Spain in recent days and more than 157,000 since the beginning of the year, according to the European Forest Fire Information System, is increasing constantly. Confronted with the size of the destruction caused by fires in Spain, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced on Sunday “A National Pact opposite Climate Emergency”.
Experts believe that the multiplication of heat waves is one of the consequences of climate change. The Iberian peninsula is strongly beaten, with heat waves and droughts that promote forest fires.
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