Northwestern Portugal also has other factors working against it when it comes to increasing fire risk, said Henrique Pereira dos Santos, a Portuguese landscape architect. Unlike parts of Greece ...
The blazes, which escalated over the weekend, mark one of the worst fire outbreaks in recent years. With the situation ...
Portugal has brought under control the remaining forest fires it battled this week in the north of the country, rescuers said ...
Two buses and seven vehicles were set on fire, in total, overnight, in various areas of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, a ...
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 ...
The death toll from two weeks of record blazes rose to 16 when a firefighter, who had been burned in a forest fire in central Portugal last week, died of his injuries late Wednesday night.
Santos, meanwhile, suffered burns on his arm and shoulder. He is one of many dispirited locals in northern Portugal who on Thursday were taking stock of the damage wreaked by powerful forest fires ...