Diogo Baptista / Lusa
There were no injuries. National Road in Melres was cut, but fire in Gondomar is controlled. Lima bridge breathes, stable Arouca.
O Single Air Medium Available at the Arcos de Valdevez this Inoperational after having crowded, this Wednesday, in a ramada From Videiras, in São Jorge and Ermelo, the mayor told Lusa.
“I was landing on the field in São Jorge, to collect four elements of the Permanent Intervention Team (EIP) when one of the propeller blades crashed into Ramada and damaged the shovel in a vine. Managed to land safely and, There are no injuriesbetween the four elements of EIP and the pilot, ”said Olegário Gonçalves.
Speaking to the Lusa agency, the social democratic mayor said that the “helicopter is on site”, and the arrival of mechanics to make the repair.
“It is likely that today they can not. helicopter has to stay in place. Will be replaced during this day or tomorrow morning [quinta-feira] For another helicopter, ”he added.
Olegário Gonçalves revealed that, “from August 1 (tomorrow, Friday), the second helicopter [deslocado para Portalegre] will return to Arcos de Valdevez. ”
Controlled fires
The fire that launched on Tuesday in Penafiel and spread the Gondomar, in the district of Porto, it maintains an active facing between Moreira and Rio Mau, but “is controlled”, They revealed to Lusa several sources.
“The situation is controlled,” said a source of the Penafiel City Council, adding that the fire goes to the National Road that connects Rio Mau to Entre-os-Rios.
Already source of the volunteer firefighters of Melres, Gondomar municipality, indicated that “the fire is controlled, but remains active in a zone of valleys that Doll saw”.
The sources indicated that active It is located between Moreira, in the parish of Melres, municipality of Gondomar, and Rio Mau, in Penafiel.
To Estrada Nacional 108 (EN108) It was today, at 7:15 am, cut to traffic, in both directions in the locality of Melres (Gondomar) Due to the fire, according to GNR.
The fire in bush area in Ponte de Limadistrict of Viana do Castelo, is in the phase of resolution, today indicated civil protection.
The fire, dominated at 4:26, “is giving in to the means of combat,” Alto Minho’s Sub-Regional Command told Lusa.
About 150 inhabitants of four villages of Boat bridge they were removed of his dwellings on Wednesday, for security reasons, in view of the proximity of the flames of the fire that launched, Saturday, in the Peneda-Gerês National Park. But they are already returning home on Thursday.
The situation of the fires in Arouca “this stabilized ”, Although with some rekindies, and without developments that arouse “greater concern”, according to a statement from the City Council, citing information from Civil Protection.
The fire that launched on Monday in Arouca and spreading to the neighboring municipalities of Castle of Paiva and Cinfães today had, at 09:15, an active front, that the Civil Protection said he hoped to see “broken” soon.
“At this time wants the municipality of Arouca, or the municipality of Castelo de Paiva do not have any active fire zone,” said the sub-regional commander of emergency and civil protection of Greater Lisbon, Hugo Santos, adding that only a small line of active fire in the municipality of Cinfães, district of Viseu.
