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Man was 43 years old, was a joint president, and was fighting the fire in Vila Franca do Deão. Government confirms death.
Os fires killed A person in Portugal: CARLOS DAMASO It is the first mortal victim of this year’s fireworks.
Carlos was 43 years old and was fighting the fire in Vila Franca do Deão (Guard). It had disappeared in the middle of the morning, the body was found charred hours later, this Friday.
Local inhabitants report that the victim was helping other men to avoid more losses when they suddenly surrounded by the flames. “One of the other was lost, each was the ‘save who can’.” You wind Strong and unstable were essential in this tragic outcome.
Carlos Dâmaso was President of the Board Parish of Vila Franca do Deão from 2009 to 2021. Now he was again a candidate for the presidency of this Parish Council for the independent movement.
The fireworks in Vila Franca do Deão also originated a serious injured, that got burns; It was transported by helicopter to the Coimbra Hospital. It is in an induced coma.
The government lamented the death and appealed to the tranquility of the population in the coming days, “still of great intensity” in the fight against the flames, said Secretary of State for Civil Protection, Rui Rocha.
Various fires worry
Several fronts are drawing up in the municipality of OLIVEIRA DE HOSPITALfrom the fire that began in Arganil on Wednesday, having passed the Alva River and heading above the headquarters of the municipality, told the source of the municipality to the Lusa agency. The fire has already reached eight parishes in total, all located in the south of the county, some of which on the banks of the Alva River. “There is the danger of repeating what happened in 2017”.
The fire that draws in Blackboard passed to the municipality of Góis and is threatening schist villages in the southwest slope of the mountain.
The fire that launched early Friday afternoon in the municipality of Freixo de Sword to the strapin the protected area of the International Douro, it has three active fronts that were understood to two other neighboring municipalities: Moldy e Moncorvo Tower.
The fire in the municipalities of Portalegre e Vide Castlegiven as dominated on Friday morning, is again active, due to a “strong reactivation” in the afternoon in the area where it launched on Thursday.
The fire in Are genes, Municipality of Nisa, in the district of Portalegre, was given as dominated at 02:58 and is in surveillance.
More than 3,300 operatives fought at 5:30 today, Saturday, the seven main fires on the continent, with those of Arganil (District of Coimbra) and Sátão (Viseu) to concentrate the largest number of means, according to Civil Protection.
In Arganil, dozens of villages were evacuated on Friday; In Sátão, and after joining the fire of Trancoso, the flames now reached 11 municipalities – the latest was Vila Nova de Foz Cola. In Aguiar da Beira, some houses have already burned.
