Four firefighters were injured at the Sátão fire in the Viseu district, fought by 600 operational. Since Tuesday, the fire has passed to Benancelhe and Aguiar da Beira. There were threatened villages and destroyed vacant houses.
It was almost 18 o’clock in the afternoon when the wind changed and with it came the most tensioning moments in the village of A-de-Barros, in Sernancelhe, Viseu district, land of emigrants.
There was no time for save goods and animalsthere were no means of combat. The last hours of Wednesday in Sátão already announced the worst. Hell knocked on Sátão’s door.
Em Aguiar da Beirabefore, it had already shown in Gradizwith the violence that the images document and in strength. Four firefighters were injured in the municipality of Sátão, district of Viseu. Three were transported to the hospital with slight burns. Were more than 500 the operational on the ground.
In the middle of the afternoon, they were Four active fronts and a lot of anguish among the residents. In the village of Santo Stephendistrict of Viseu, the fire that started in Sátão was climbing ground, pushed by the wind, and arrived out of control SERNANCELHE.
Firefighters were doing what they could, but It didn’t arrive. More than the reinforcement of means, it was necessary for the wind and the luck.