Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Oporto and Aveiro are the most battered districts in flames – Observer

The District Emergency Plan (EDP) of Porto was driven for 48 hours and about 120 military platoons already operating reinforced fight the flames in the district that more events and more resources mobilized at national level.

the information was advanced to Lusa by Marco Martins, president of the District Committee of Civil Protection (CDPC) of the Port, which at 00.15 on Monday triggered the PDE an “unprecedented” decision in a region where, “the last half hour , triggered seven new fires. “

the district of Porto recorded, for 12 hours, 29 rural fires, involving 455 men, 138 terrestrial means and three aerial means, revealing the web page of the National Protection Authority civil (ANPC).

according to Marco Martins, the district “continues to feel the need for more air means” to fight the flames. “We are making a great effort, due to the number of occurrences,” he said.

“complicated situation” is the Sierra de Soalhães that began in Marco de Canaveses municipality and has progressed to the county of Baião, added the president of the CDPC. The ANPC indicates that this fire Soalhães began to 09h44m but did not make available, by 12 hours, information about the media concerned.

Marco Martins revealed Lusa that, in addition to the “four military platoon” equivalent about 120 men, which reinforced the fight against fire during the night, “is on track” one “booster group coming fire of the South”.

the official explained that he had decided to activate due PDE ” the number of occurrences “that has been seen in the district of Porto, in particular due to forest fires, but also under” lack of responsiveness “means available and” weather forecast for the coming days. “

also for this reason, the EDP was fired for 48 hours, said Marco Martins. The president of the CDPC noted that on Sunday, “only in the district of Porto, 1,870 firefighters were in the fight 150 fires.”

“This was one of the reasons that led to the request for external aid” , said Marco Martins, noting that the district of Porto has a staff of 3,100 men to solve all kinds of events, which made it complicated the renewal of teams.

when operating the PDE, the CDPC asked the government, by 2 am, a “barrier nine battle groups”, equivalent to “about 300 operational,” explained Marco Martins, who also chairs the Gondomar Chamber.

Alongside this also the neighboring districts of Aveiro, Braga and Viana do Castelo record a high number of rural fires, said the official.

the fire broke out around 4 am Monday in Préstimo, county Agueda, Aveiro district is “uncontrollable” and several active fronts, putting homes “systematically at risk,” he told Lusa the president of Agueda Chamber.

“We are evacuating those who are bedridden and other advice from firefighters and GNR is leaving their belongings and homes and leave, “said Gil Nadais, told Lusa.

Highlighting the” brutal gale “, associated with very high temperatures as the main difficulty in fighting the fire, the mayor said that “the work of firefighters has been only protect people and homes.”

According to Gil Nadais, the fire consumed a warehouse of building materials, but there is no indication that any housing has been reached. “We have reached the walls of the houses, but not burned,” he said.

According to the president of Agueda Chamber, “the situation is uncontrollable at the moment,” even whisked ‘many corporations almost throughout the country “and several air assets involved, which, however,” have difficulty operating because of smoke in the air. “

the fire at Préstimo mobilizes this time 239 men, 70 vehicles and two air assets , according to the National Civil Protection Authority (ANPC).

according to the source, the 16 fires in the Aveiro district were the most media mobilized around 12.30 pm with 16 rural fire “in open “being fought by 691 men supported by 215 terrestrial means six air assets.

Aveiro appears Featured also in rural fire list” important “marked by ANPC with two fires, one in Agueda and another in Arouca.

the fire that started on Saturday in Arouca spread to the neighboring county of Vale de Cambra, where the situation has worsened and now involves “four or five active fronts,” said Lusa commander local corporation, Victor Machado.

According to the National Civil Protection Authority (ANPC) Arouca fire is what most media mobilized on Monday between the “major events”, so called have “more than three hours and over 15 means of protection and relief involved.”

This fire also in Aveiro district began in Provisende de Cima, Rossas, Arouca, and is being fought by 274 men, 89 terrestrial means and two air assets.

“This fire is still very intense and, at night, our work was practically defend house to house, because the urban-wildland interface in Valley goat is very complicated, with isolated and inserted dwellings in the forest “, stressed Victor Machado, commander of Vale de Cambra Fire.

António Alberto Gomes, vice president of the agency, reveals that” most endangered sites were the village of Trebilhadouro and places de Fuste and function “, everyone in the parish Roge precisely the rurality of these locations and the isolation of the respective houses.

” it has been able to control the situation and the only damage so far were in agricultural attachments, as some haystacks and storage, “explains the mayor, José Pinheiro

These two fires in the district of Aveiro. – in Préstimo (Agueda) and Valley Cambra, identified as “important” by ANPC, mobilize, totaling 492 men, 158 terrestrial means and four air assets.

according to the ANPC, 17 fires are currently underway in Aveiro district were more mobilized means, involving 680 men, 213 terrestrial means and four air assets.

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