MIGUEL PEREIRA DA SILVA / LUSA
Firefighters fight a fire in Santa Comba, Seia.
Government decided to extend the warning situation due to weather forecasts, which point to increased temperature and aggravated risk of rural fire.
Portugal is in warning situation since August 2 and was scheduled until Wednesday-now extended for 48 hours.
The government decided on Tuesday to extend the warning situation until 23:59 on Friday due to the weather forecasts, which point to Increased temperature and aggravated risk of rural fire.
A note from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MAI) released in the late afternoon says that “all exceptional measures, once implemented, will be maintained during this period.”
According to the statement, “this decision results from the forecasts of adverse weather conditions by the end of Friday, which, in the current circumstances, implies a very high risk of rural fires propagation”.
“In addition, the validity of the warning situation, and the respective prohibitions, It has effectively contributed to a relative reduction of ignitions, ”says the government, adding that this decision“ will allow, on the one hand, a reinforced operational device and, on the other, the reinforcement of surveillance and inspection actions by GNR, PSP and the Armed Forces ”.
Thus, and in the context of the extension of the warning situation, provided for in the Civil Protection Bases Law, the exceptional measures.
Among these measures The prohibition of access, circulation and permanence inside forest spaces previously defined in municipal forest defense plans against forest forest, rural paths and other roads that cross them, as well as the burning and burning burning of exploration, as well as the suspension of authorizations that have been issued.
It is also forbidden to do work in forest spaces using any type of machinery, except those associated with situations of rural fires, prohibition of work on other rural spaces using motorroadors of blades or metal discs, matos, destroyers and machines with blades or front pages and the use of fire to artifacts or other artifacts or other artifacts. Pyrotechnic, regardless of its combustion form, as well as the suspension of authorizations that have been issued.
These prohibitions do not cover The works associated with eating and beverage to animals, phytosanitary or fertilization treatment, watering, pruning, harvesting and transportation of agricultural crops, provided that they are essential and unavoidable and develop in watering areas or disapproved of forests, forests or flammable materials, and of which does not result in danger of ignition.
Cortiça extraction by manual methods and (growing) honey extraction is not covered, provided that it is performed without the use of fumigation methods obtained by incandescent material or temperature generator or construction work, provided that the proper measures of rural fire risk mitigation are adopted.
The harvesting work of agricultural crops using machines, namely thresholds, and performing cuts of forest exploration of cutting, filling and transportation, between sunset and 11:00, are also not covered, provided that measures of mitigation of rural fire risk is adopted and communicated to the municipal territorial protection service.
Forest fires have already consumed about 60,000 hectares of burning area this year.
Orange warning
Castelo Branco, Guarda and Bragança will be under orange warning Due to the heat, also until the end of Friday, the Portuguese Institute of Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA) announced on Tuesday.
Orange warning, the second most serious, is due to the “persistence of very high values of maximum temperature” for these three districts was extended until Friday, according to the institute’s statement.
Already the districts of Évora, Beja e Portalegre They will be under orange warning until 18:00 on Thursday, passing the yellow warning until the end of Thursday.
Village e Viseu They are under yellow warning until 06:00 on Thursday, when they pass orange until 18:00 on Thursday.
Em Porto, Faro, Setúbal, Viana do Castelo, Aveiro, Braga and Lisboa A yellow warning is in force by the end of Thursday, while in Santarém, Leiria and Coimbra The yellow warning of the IPMA vigorously until 18:00 on Friday.
