PAULO CUNHA / EPA
Four large fires, especially one in Arganil. Already burned 75,000 hectares this year. PS and free leave questions.
Os Four fires that more concerns raise the authorities are mobilizing two thirds of the means on the ground at national level, with that of Arganil To be what has the most operational and vehicles, according to Civil Protection.
According to the National Emergency and Civil Protection Authority (Anepc), the fire of Arganil (Coimbra) has a “still very unfavorable” situation, with several active fronts, “at least six work sectors” and there are not yet many consolidated areas. This fire is “still far from being dominated.”
This fire, at 09:40, mobilized more than 900 firefighters, supported by 301 vehicles and five air assets.
In addition to the fire of Arganil, the other three who raise the biggest concerns are those of Sátão and Cinfães (Viseu) and that of Trancoso (Guarda), the latter is what has a “less unfavorable” situation, according to Civil Protection.
Anepc explained that the fire of Trancoso It already has “large areas in resolution”, “with aftermaker and consolidation work and others of surveillance”.
This fire was at 09:40 to be fought by 460 operational, supported by 146 vehicles and two air assets.
Also in a still unfavorable situation is the fire in the municipality of Sátão, In Viseu, which despite having some areas already in aftermath, there are sectors that “are still in work and others where the fire develops with intensity”.
At the site, at 09:40, there were 447 firefighters, supported by 142 vehicles and four air assets.
The fire of Cinfães, It also has two active fronts “burning with medium intensity” and “some villages to be affected”.
According to Civil Protection, it is an area with difficult access to terrestrial media.
On site are 111 operational, supported by 29 vehicles and three air assets.
Asked if there were villages at risk of being evacuated, the same source stressed that these fires “are extremely dynamic” and that the situation can change at any time, adding no detailed and rigorous information at the moment and referring to local command posts.
“In areas where there are villages surrounding these fires, there is always the possibility [de evacuação] And at the command post, the possibility of preventively, evacuations or displacement of these people is always evaluated, ”he said.
The fire that launched on Sunday in Table, Viseu district, entered today in resolution, indicated the civil protection.
In total, they are on the ground to combat the fires in mainland Portugal 2,940 operational, supported by 940 vehicles and 17 air assets.
IPMA concern
More than 120 municipalities in the northern interior and center of the country and the Algarve are today in maximum risk Fire, according to the Portuguese Institute of Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA).
At the maximum fire risk all the municipalities of Bragança district and most of Vila Real, Guarda, Viseu and Castelo Branco are at risk.
Also at full risk are dozens of other municipalities of the Viana do Castelo, Braga, Porto, Aveiro, Coimbra, Santarém, Portalegre, Beja and Faro districts.
Paula Leitão, from IPMA, admits “Great concern” – That goes prolong In the coming days: “The situation is still quite worrying about the fires. Time is very hot, summer is already in advance, everything is very dry, the wind will have some variations in the direction. Therefore, the situation remains of great concern.”
Na, the meteorologist commented that the temperature will have a small descent from tomorrow, Friday, but “It will continue the hot weather”.
Until Sunday, there are several places from north to south that should arrive or overcome the 40 degrees.
PS, free, Montenegro
José Luís Carneiro thinks the government should declare contingency. The PS secretary-general explains in what this change “allows you to activate the emergency plans of civil protection, allows you to mobilize means that, otherwise, is more difficult to mobilize them.”
Luís Montenegro He was questioned by journalists about the fact that the government has not yet requested help from the European Civil Protection mechanism to combat fireworks.
“When necessary, we will do. This obeys technical and operational criteria that have to be met, ”said the prime minister.
The parliamentary group of Book today questioned Luís Montenegro about the reasons for infringement from Meta de to clean one million hectares of forest between 2020 and 2024, provided for in the National Action Plan (PNA) 20-30.
The party recalls that the goal of cleaning one million hectares of forest between 2020 and 2024 was assumed after the 2017 fires, but, according to news that released this week, only 400,000 hectares were intervened. A number considers it free, which “reveals structural difficulties in the execution of the goals set in the PNA.”
Since the beginning of 2025, forest fires have consumed about today 75.000 hectares – More than half burned in the last three weeks, according to provisional data from the Institute of Nature Conservation and Forests.
