1,700 firefighters battle Portugal wildfires
A National Guard firefighter helps battle a wildfire in the village of Roda in central Portugal on July 21 (AFP Photo/PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA)/ Amendoa (Portugal) (AFP) - Planes and helicopters joined nearly 2,000 firefighters in central Portugal Sunday to battle huge wildfires in a mountainous region where more than 100 people died in huge blazes in 2017. Some 1,700 firefighters and 400 vehicles were deployed in one of the biggest mobilisations ever seen in the area to fight the blazes in the heavily forested Castelo Branco region, 200 ...
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