Portugal.- Five fires are still active in Portugal, which extends the alert until Tuesday

MADRID, 18 (EUROPA PRESS)

Portugal woke up this Monday with five active forest fires and is monitoring with special concern the fire that continues to burn the Covillana area, in the Castelo Branco district, where more than a thousand firefighters are working on the ground.

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The Government of Luís Montenegro announced on Sunday night an additional 48-hour extension of the generalized alert situation, given that the wave of fires that began in early August does not stop.

More than 80 area councils in the north, the center and the Algarve, in the south, remain in a situation of maximum risk and the extinction services are working around the clock to contain an emergency that has burned tens of thousands of hectares in a matter of days. Since the beginning of the year, more than 185,000 hectares have already burned, more than in all of 2024.

Un responsable de la Autoridad Nacional de Emergencia y Protección Civil (ANPEC), Miguel Oliveira, ha indicado que el fuego de Covillana es el que más medios mantiene movilizados, con unos 1.100 efectivos y casi 370 medios terrestres, informa la agencia de noticias Lusa. El Ayuntamiento ha emitido este lunes una nueva alerta a la población local en la que avisa de que el fuego sigue «fuera de control».

In recent hours, the death of a firefighter who was on his way to fight a fire has been added to the balance of havoc caused by the fires in the Portuguese mountains. The vehicle in which they were traveling plunged into a ravine, which also left four others injured, one of them seriously.