More than 1,100 firefighters were battling fires in the northwestern Aveiro district where one ... special red alert status ...

The worst-affected area is the Aveiro district in the northwest ... around the clock to contain the spread of the fires.

Portugal has brought under control the remaining forest fires it battled this week in ... Four blazes engulfed the Aveiro region, south of the city of Porto, across a front of around 100 ...

At least seven people have died after wildfires in the Aveiro and Viseu areas of Portugal, although cooler ... Spain and Morocco to help fight the fires.

André Fernandes, Portugal's national civil protection ... situation required additional support. Several fires that broke out in the Aveiro region over the weekend forced about 70 residents ...

As Klymenko underlined, Portugal is presently dealing with large-scale fires that have ravaged the ... the blaze in the municipality of Aveiro, one of the worst-hit areas, and now are focusing ...

Unlike parts of Greece and Italy, for example, where scorching summers mean weeds and other plants that can fuel fires tend to grow slowly, northwestern Portugal, with its proximity to the ...

The northern and central regions of mainland Portugal remain engulfed in flames, with the Aveiro district seeing the largest deployment of firefighting personnel, despite a calmer outlook. The fires ...

He is one of many dispirited locals in northern Portugal who on Thursday were taking stock of the damage wreaked by powerful forest fires across large swathes of land earlier this week. The blazes, ...