A large fire that raged for twelve days on the Portuguese island of Madeira, burning about 50,000 hectares of vegetation without causing casualties or significant damage, has been fully brought under control, emergency services said today. “We cannot yet say at this stage that it has been extinguished because the fire was very large and there may still be hot spots,” but “it is fully under control,” said the president of the regional civil protection agency, Antonio Nunes. who is cited by the Lusa news agency. The fire was significantly slowed down by the intervention of two Spanish firefighting aircraft, which arrived to reinforce domestic forces on Thursday, as part of the European Civil Protection Agency activated by Portugal. The day before yesterday, Saturday, the president of the regional government, Miguel Albuquerque, had announced that the active fronts had been “significantly reduced”. The fire broke out on August 14 in the community of Hibera Brava and spread to neighboring Camara de Lobus and Punta do Sol, on the southern coast of […]
Source: News Beast
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