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More than a thousand operatives are fighting the great fire that broke out in Proença-a-Nova on Sunday and has a 60-kilometer perimeter.
“The work is progressing very favorably. We are managing to resolve this fire ”, acknowledged the operational commander of the district group, Luís Belo Costa, of the National Emergency and Civil Protection Authority (ANEPC), at a point of situation in the afternoon of the day the fire that broke out on Sunday in the municipality of Proença-a-Nova and which was extended to the neighboring municipalities of Oleiros and Castelo Branco.
“With the set of indicators with which we work – number of personnel, available equipment and meteorological indicators, that is, the wind – We count through the night to tame the fire“he added.” A little more than 50% of the perimeter is dominated, “of which 30% is already consolidated with” excellent work of the tracked machines, “he explained.
To give a dimension of the magnitude of a “very large” fire, in a still very preliminary assessment, the person responsible for the combat actions added that The flames will have already consumed an area very close to 15 thousand hectares, corresponding to about 60 kilometers of perimeter..
“The fire takes about 29 hours, which gives on average an area of more than 500 hectares burned per hour, which is something vertiginous for those who have to fight ”, he stressed.
Although there are “hot spots” in Proença and Castelo Branco, “the areas of greatest attention are all in the municipality of Oleiros“he added, highlighting” the northern front, very close to the Coimbra district boundary. “
“Fortunately, there were no personal injuries,” said Luis Belo Costa. Revealing that “some heritage has been affected” but that the survey is still being carried out, he listed two destroyed vacant houses, a second home and some sheds.
the 33 people who were evacuated from their homes In the municipality of Oleiros, Luís Belo Costa assured that “as soon as possible” they will return to their homes and that the towns that are still in the line of fire are not cause for concern.
At 7:30 p.m., the fire was being fought by 1,041 operatives, supported by 342 vehicles and eight aerial means, which, during the day, were double, in addition to 16 tracked machines.
To support the fight against the Proença-a-Nova fire, the Army sent four tracking machines, the General Staff of the Armed Forces said in a statement tonight.
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