MIGUEL PEREIRA DA SILVA / LUSA
A firefighter fights the flames during fire
Road accident left other injured firefighters, one of them was operated at night. Accident happened in Covilhã.
One fireman From the Covilhã Fire Department he died This Sunday in a accident of road while moving to a rural fire that launched in the municipality of Fundão, indicated the National Emergency and Civil Protection Authority (Anepc).
In a statement, the body indicates that the accident occurred at 19:10 and that there is still “Four injured firefighters, which are being rescued/assisted by the emergency teams on site. ”
The fire to which the team was heading out in the locality of Quinta do Campo.
According to the subregional command of Beiras and Serra da Estrela of Civil Protection, the accident happened in the village of São Francisco de Assisin the municipality of Covilhã, in the Castelo Branco district, to which the Municipality of Fundão also belongs.
To the scene, the command indicated, 26 operational, supported by nine vehicles and one air medium, including the means of the Volunteer Firefighters of Covilhã and Fundão, the Republican National Guard (GNR) and the National Institute of Medical Emergency (INEM).
“It will never be too much to underline the commitment, altruism and professionalism with which, daily, thousands of firefighters across the country are dedicated, with courage and delivery, to defense of populations and fire forest,” says the Anepc in the statement, presenting condolences to the family of the mortal victim and wishing to improve the injured operational.
This is the second death registered this year in rural fires. On Friday, a former accountant from Vila Franca do Deão, in Guarda municipality (and candidate in this year’s municipalities to the presidency of the parish), in the fight against the flames, at the age of 43.
One of the firefighters wounded seriously in the road accident was being operated On Sunday night, according to the Fire Department.
Official source of the Communication League, then said that Lusa received confirmation that a second firefighter had also died, but around 22:20 corrected the information, explaining that he received from Civil Protection the indication that the operational was at this time in the operative block.
“Humanly impossible”
The fire that has been drawing since Friday in Sabugal, in the Guarda district, “It is not controlled, not even more or less” And he continues to consume bush and threaten villages, Mayor Vítor Proença told Lusa.
“It has already moved to Vale das Águas, rose to Ruvina, Ruivós, Nave, Valongo do Côa, this in a fire. In the bendada is still very complicated, was already in Águas Belas, the fire is not controlled, no more or less,” admitted the mayor, in statements to Lusa tonight.
According to Vitor Proença, the situation worsened throughout the afternoon due to the strength of the wind.
“The wind complicated everything, it’s our worst enemy. With this wind intensity we have no hypotheses, it is one thing from another world, abysmal”, He stressed, adding that “the problem of this fire is that it has several fronts and distant, at different points” of the county.
In this way, he added, “it is humanly impossible to lock the flames“.
Rag
The fire that launched on Saturday afternoon in Rag is with Three active fronts And going down a slope towards the mountain of Santa Helena, the fire commander told Lusa.
“It’s burning with quite intensity And with three huge fronts, I have very few terrestrial media and at this time not even air, ”Lusa agency told 20:30 the tarouca volunteer fire commander, Humberto Sarmento.
According to the commander, This fire arose following another“Which is already outdated, but it has reached another slope of very difficult access, with kilometers in front, and is on a slope, with the mountain of Santa Helena ahead, on the front slope.”
There are no locations in danger.
