Fire appeared next to the gas station. “No one gets!”

Flames of Trancoso and Sátão reach 10 municipalities. There are 6 great fires, it is “out of control” in Arganil. Government realizes complaints.

The fires do not give respite in Portugal. And, as the Minister of Internal Affairs had, this Friday would be a particularly complicated day.

In the early morning, more than 3,500 operatives fought 37 fires Assets across the country, six of them mobilize the largest number of means.

The most worrying is in Arganil. “Things uncontrolled Completely at night, the winds are very severe, ”reports the local mayor.

Luís Paulo Costa regrets in: “We can’t realize where the means are. There is 800 and 900 operational, I even believe they are scattered throughout the front fronts, but in this area there are few protection interventions to happen, this is completely unfortunate and we could not anticipate a positive outcome for this.”

The mayor, thrilled, remembers what happened eight years ago: “All this smells like 2017 And that disturbs us a lot. We have a set of villages that have been completely surrounded at night and that, as a result of the articulation between firefighters and GNR, it was possible at least preserving the houses and ensuring people’s lives, but there are villages that are in the fire line and the wind is very severe, ”he warns that some people have already been advised to leave home.

The fires that started in Trancoso e Sátão They currently affect 10 municipalities And they have three very large active fronts, the center’s second regional commander Jody Rato told Lusa.

“The fires of Trancoso and Sátão were very close, almost interacting, there were already areas where they were less than 10 kilometers and in this sense we absorbed the command that now is only one and we have 10 municipalities,” he said to Lusa, around 09h00, the commander on the ground, Jody Rato.

The fire affects the municipalities of Sátão, Sernancelhe, Moimenta da Beira, Penedono and “also entering” São João da Pesqueira (Viseu District); Aguiar da Beira, Trancoso, Algodres, Meda and Celorico da Beira (Guarda District).

“ Three very large active fronts. One of them more than 20 kilometers in front. The most concerned area is in the north, in the head, because it is where it is most intense, that is, in Penedono and São João da Pesqueira, ”he said.

The mayor of SERNANCELHE He told Lusa that the county is “being attacked” by two distinct fires, having decreed municipal emergency and adapted a pavilion to support population.

“Despite the four days of efforts we made, it was not possible to hold the fires and they entered and endangered many parishes and populations and divided the county into two parts, which made it difficult to combat,” said Carlos Santos at 20:00.

The village of covanca, in Pampilhosa da Serrawill be evacuated Due to the aggravation of the fire that has drawn since Wednesday.

However, the fire in Portalegre and Castle de Vide It’s 90% dominated, says civil protection.

The Portuguese Army has already mobilized more than 3,200 military personnel to combat fire in the country, maintaining 35 daily patrols in fires surveillance and detection actions.

About 130 municipalities in the northern interior and center of the country and six municipalities of the Algarve are today in maximum risk of fire. According to the IPMA, all the municipalities of the Bragança, Guarda and Viseu districts and most of Vila Real, Castelo Branco and Coimbra are at maximum fire.

Gas station

This Thursday, a very disturbed day, was marked by a starter in Vide Castle: The flames were close to a gas station.

The fire was slowly progressing, but, explaining, suddenly, a faunhous went to the other side of the road.

One tall appeared behind the gas station; All people were evacuated “Hurry” by GNR.

And the means?

In Aguiar da Beira, the local inhabitants ask for “another organization” of the means in the fight against fires.

And next door, in Sernancelhe, he was a fire commander to reinforce the complaints: “In two subregions, two posts of command, a command post of the director… No one understands yourself!“Lamed Luís Fonseca, Commander of the Volunteer Firefighters of Sernancelhena.

A minister of the internal administration, Maria Lúcia Amaral, admits: “Uncoordination… no one is immune to her. In an effort as large as this can occur and will occur inevitably, because everything is extraordinarily complex. Of course one understands who is close to the populations understand that everything that exists is not enough, because the means are always limited, ”said Maria Lúcia Amaral.

Jody Rato understands the complaints but explains: The burned area is very large.

“We are talking about an area of more than 6,000 hectares. Air media, obviously, if they are operating in an area of the fire, will not be visible in another zone. I understand perfectly. I also have many years, many hours, to be on the ground and understand that, who is on the ground, has no perception of the complexity of the organization,” said the second regional commander of the Center.

The government also understands the complaints but ensures that everything that is possible is being done in the fight against fires.

The Prime Minister assured: “We are making the maximum effort not to leave anyone alone, to do the maximum effort To mobilize all the means we have follow the situation all the time. ”

“We are doing it perhaps discreetly, but believe me, very close and seeking to be as effective and efficient as possible. We are doing it Using everything that is possibleafter we have made a preparation from the point of view of prevention and allocation of the entire system for combat, ”he added Luís Montenegro.

The Minister of Internal Affairs said she is on the ground largest device ever”In the fight against strong fires.

But he also realizes the appeal of the chamber presidents: “I understand very well all the appeals that the mayors have done, in the face of the dramatic nature of what we are living is more than understandable. Each mayor, each holder of local power elected is directly responsible for his populations in his territories, so he feels like no one to the impotence and affliction that all causes.”

Both Canadair who were already replaced. The National Civil Protection Commander stated that the European Civil Protection mechanism may be activated if Portugal could not extend the permanence of the other two Canadair aircraft from Morocco.