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The Cheda village, in Tabaçô, Arcos de Valdevez, ended without being evacuated, as predicted, because the operatives managed to rotate the flames in the opposite direction to that of the houses, and in the meantime a fire has already been extinguished, according to firefighters.
According to the Arcos de Valdevez fire department commander, although the teams are ready at the site for the evacuation of the neighbors, as announced, this was not necessary because the operatives who were fighting the fire managed to “rotate the flames. they would go in the opposite direction to those of the houses.
“The fire has already gone out,” said the commander, highlighting the collaboration between the different operatives who worked in the fight against the flames, where at 7:00 p.m. 54 operatives and 13 vehicles were on the ground, supported by the only means based in the Arcos de Valdevez airfield.
In Monção, the fire that broke out around 17:08 in Leiradelo, in the Union of Freguesias de Anhões and Luzio, remained active around 22:00, but its “level of danger” has already decreased, as has the intensity of the wind.
According to the Monção fire department commander, the Leiradelo housing area, which is part of the Safe Village / Safe Person program, is now out of danger.
Around 10:30 p.m., 78 operatives and 23 vehicles were fighting this fire.
In Viana do Castelo, the fire that broke out around 09:20 in the parish of Vila Nova de Anha, was in the “dominated phase” this afternoon, said the commander of the Viana do Castelo fire department, mentioning, not However, it was “Complicated work” given the “amount of easily combustible material on the ground.”
There are 29 operational vehicles and nine firefighting vehicles at the site.
Afternoon of many fires in Alto Minho
In Monção, the fire that broke out around 17:08 in Leiradelo, in the União de Freguesias de Anhões and Luzio, “plows with great intensity and close to homes.”
According to the Civil Protection source, “the inhabitants of Leiradelo, which is part of the Aldeia Segura / Pessoa Segura program, can be evacuated from their homes.”
By 7:00 p.m., 40 operatives and 12 vehicles were fighting this fire.
In Viana do Castelo, “the fire that broke out around 09:20 in the parish of Vila Nova de Anha, and which had already been considered dominated, suffered intense reactivations and plows near the houses.”
In this fire, at approximately 7:41 p.m., 57 operational personnel, 19 vehicles and an air medium were involved.
The civil protection source said that the fires in Viana do Castelo and Monção “are the most worrying” and pointed out “the speed with which the fires are reaching dimensions of difficult combat and the various ignitions with very short intervals, which force the dispersion of the available means ”, as the main difficulties faced by firefighters.
News updated at 23:59 with information that, after all, the town was not evacuated.
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