While Spain is fighting against flames, Portugal is also affected by households which ravage the country, causing the death of two people.
A firefighter died in the northwest of Spain following an accident, the government of the Castille-et-Léon region said on Monday, bringing the number of deaths in fires that have ravaged Spain for more than a week. The local government “Dressing death” a firefighter in the “Reversal” a vehicle carrying water, according to a message on the social network X.
The accident occurred when the convoy it belonged to this vehicle has moved away from the fire to take a very tilted forest path. “For an unknown reason, the vehicle has approached the embankment and swelled, falling on a slope of a high drop”added the local government.
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More than 70,000 hectares have burned in Spain in recent days and more than 157,000 since the beginning of the year, according to the European Forest Fire Information System (Effis), constant increases. Faced with the magnitude of the devastation caused by fires in Spain, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced on Sunday “A national pact in the face of climate emergency».
Two dead in fires in Portugal
A firefighter participating in the fight against fires in the north and center of Portugal was also killed in a «accident»bringing to two the fatal record of households which have ravaged the country since the end of July, according to a press release from the Portuguese presidency obtained on Monday by AFP.
The firefighter died “In Service”during a “Road accident” also “Two seriously injured” Among his colleagues, said the President of the Republic Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa in this press release.
