Tuesday shorts: Police confiscate €300,000 transported by Chinese father and son, and CO2 in abundance
Heavy backpack A routine GNR ‘traffic stop’ focused on ‘goods in circulation’ has discovered two Chinese men transporting a backpack in their vehicle containing €300,000 in cash. As neither man
Swedish Fire Boss planes arrive today, but won’t be going straight into action
Underscoring firefighters’ criticism of Civil Protection, the entity’s national commander has said today that the two Fire Boss aircraft provided by Sweden under the European Mechanism for helping countries struggling
Firefighters to present proposals for ‘improving Portugal’s fire-fighting system’
With the failures of the current system beamed across television news every night, the League of Portuguese Firefighters has come up with proposals on how to improve the country’s fire-fighting
Accident investigators highlight “lack of training and control of pilots involved in wildfire combat”
Investigators probing one of the worst losses of life in a single crash of a firefighting aircraft in Portugal have come to a devastating conclusion: “there are serious failings in
PM/ president express ‘lamentations’ over tragic death of firefighter in Covilhã
Both the president and the prime minister have ‘expressed lamentations’ over the tragic death yesterday evening of 44-year-old firefighter Daniel Bernardo Agrelo from Covilhã after the appliance in which he
CHEGA leader calls for dismissal of Minister of Interior Administration
With independent television journalists reporting tirelessly on Portugal’s continuing wildfire calamity, it has become glaringly obvious that many communities are being left to fight walls of advancing flames on their
Lagos celebrates Ukrainian culture with popular festival next week
With so much regarding the future of Ukraine ‘uncertain’ right now, the Oranta Association for the support of the Ukrainian community in Portugal promises another joyous FelizOnda festival in Lagos
Four Canadair enter fire combat in Sabugal – but elsewhere villages being surrounded
Sunday has seen the inglorious fight against raging wildfires in the interior of the north and centre continue with avengeance. In spite of the ‘good news’ that four Canadair planes
Wildfires in north, centre involve 3,200 firefighters as of 8am today
As of 8am today, the nine largest fires on the mainland were being fought by more than 3,200 firefighters, forestry sappers and military personnel, with those in Arganil (Coimbra) and
Wildfire updates: Seven active fires as of midday; “worst situation” in schist village of Piódão
Sweden sending firefighting planes, Malta sending 40 firefighters With Portugal still battling wildfires in a crushing heatwave, the situation today sees 4,000 firefighters battling seven ‘active fires’ that are causing