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Loulé forest fire reached Alentejo before being put out

fireAlmost 400 emergency services personnel and seven aircraft fought a wildfire in the Loulé area of Ameixial that started on Saturday morning.

The Civil Protection service ordered full on support to quell the flames that continued through the afternoon and into the evening.

Miguel Oliveira, official of the National Civil Protection Authority, said that the fire had two active fronts, adding late afternoon that the combat strategy will "depend on the behavior of the flames in the next few hours.”

Oliveira said that the evacuation of villages has not been necessary as the fire has been consuming areas of eucalyptus forest as it made its way north into the Alentejo Council area of Almodôvar.

Manuel Cordeiro, the deputy operations director, explained at 15:10, that one of the active fronts was consuming an area of ​​eucalyptus that was "difficult to access and increased in intensity at several points."

The other active front, facing west, "was half a kilometer wide and was consuming a zone of bush and eucalyptus trees."

There also was a strong wind that hampered the work of firefighters.

The fire was declared extinguished at 9:08 this evening with 545 firefighters and support staff having been involved, helped by eight aircraft and eight earthmoving machines during the day.

 

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Photos from the Mayor of Almodóvar via Facebook

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0 #5 Ed 2018-09-04 08:43
Quoting Bahari:
It’s strange that this fire isn’t mentioned on the Fogos website (www.fogos.pt).

I often watch fire progress on Facebook at Associacao Alerta de incendio florestal / forest fire alert
0 #4 Bahari 2018-09-04 08:27
It’s strange that this fire isn’t mentioned on the Fogos website (www.fogos.pt).
+3 #3 Charly 2018-09-02 10:18
Mike Harris: it concerned an eucalytus trees fire…. not a chip pan in your kitchen !
-4 #2 Mike Harris 2018-09-02 09:44
Has everyone clocked how quiet the call outs / shouts are nowadays ? Up until a year or so ago, when the siren sounded, you had no idea whether it was the Spanish coming, that some British had been reported nosing round imobiliarias or a fire. The last being signalled by 3 hoots for out of area fires, two being reasonably local and one being next door. Without these hoots you can nowadays have 100 bombeiros battling silently to douse your chip pan fire in your downstairs kitchen whilst you slumber on asleep upstairs.
+4 #1 Harold Thomas 2018-09-02 08:59
Yet again we hear of Civil Protection taking charge of fire fighting - not leaving it to Bombeiros - and the recent partial incineration of GIPS GNR policemen dropped into a rapidly approaching fire also reminds us that Portugal needs to specialise its criminal investigations and fire fighting. Not spread these vital activities and expertise over several organisations each with their own expensive, entirely separate, command and control hierarchies - and due to overlap, wasting hundreds of millions in duplication.

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