Southern fires push emergency services

Paul Rees 17 June 2019

firehelicopter Four aircraft have been helping to battle a fire that broke out this afternoon, June 17, at Monte das Mestras, Almodôvar.

The Beja District Relief Operations Command confirmed that the fire remained active at 5pm this afternoon, June 17^th.

The fire is in an area of scrubland and is proving hard to control despite 67 firemen on site with 19 vehicles.

A fire alert was acted on in the Montes de Cima area, Portimão, this afternoon with 24 firefighters in attendance.

A fire was dealt with in Olhão early this afternoon and another one, this fire being in the Moncarapacho and Fuseta eara, stretching emergency services.

Meanwhile, another fire was extinguished at 14:05, in the Lagoa area. 22 firefighters and one helicopter, tackled the blaze.

Comments

0 #5 Peter Booker 2019-06-20 09:40

"……those of us from north of the Rhine just how far south we actually are."

I have enjoyed this notion. Since the Rhine flows in a northerly direction (north north westerly would be more accurate), Hendrickson must mean those who come from a point to the north of the mouth (the most northerly point) of the river.

And so he would exclude from his comment the Swiss, and the Flemish, and the South Germans as well as those from the South of England, such as me.

+1 #4 nogin the nog 2019-06-19 21:08

Quoting Hendrickson:

Noggin, as a Portuguese, comment that the authorities are aware of who the fire lighters are but do nothing to stop them as redevelopment and replanting grants at Brussels expense are too lucrative and the tax payer not the mafiosi pays for the millions each year for the fire planes and trucks and food for the thousands of Bombeiros makes clear to those of us from north of the Rhine just how far south we actually are.

HMM
The poor get poorer while the rich get richer
my friend. Such is the state of play. Shame on those that profit from such misery...

-1 #3 Hendrickson 2019-06-19 11:24

Noggin, as a Portuguese, comment that the authorities are aware of who the fire lighters are but do nothing to stop them as redevelopment and replanting grants at Brussels expense are too lucrative and the tax payer not the mafiosi pays for the millions each year for the fire planes and trucks and food for the thousands of Bombeiros makes clear to those of us from north of the Rhine just how far south we actually are.

+1 #2 nogin the nog 2019-06-18 21:32

hmm
The authorities are aware of those who deliberately make these fires year upon year BUT The lucrative contracts handed out to the private sector together with little or No support from the PULP INDUSTRY lead me to conclude it is just business as usual..

0 #1 Jack Reacher 2019-06-17 19:43

Are there this many numbnuts starting fires one day before forecast rain. Seriously this country has been drained of common sense.

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