After nearly two weeks, authorities on the island said firefighters had finally brought the large forest fire under control. Country struggles as wildfire blazes through thousands of acres: 'We are ...
Madeira's sole firefighting helicopter had been trying to contain the flames without success. The forest fire, which broke out on August 14, has destroyed about 5,000 hectares of natural landscape ...
"These planes, which dump 6,000 litres of water, will be only used to tame the fire in the central mountain ... The Atlantic island of Madeira - an autonomous region of Portugal with around ...