Portugal enters ‘state of alert’ due to high risk of fires
State of alert implies various ‘prohibitions’ to reduce chances of new fires breaking out Mainland Portugal has been placed on a ‘state of alert’ until almost the end of next
Hundreds of firefighters continue through north and centre
Fires of Arouca, Gondomar ‘in resolution’; Ponte da Barca still main concern Hundreds of firefighters are still on the ground in the north and centre, battling to contain recent fires.
Above average mortality marks Portugal’s seriously hot weather
Heatwaves synonymous with ‘excess deaths’, invariably among elderly/ chronically ill Mainland Portugal recorded 264 excess deaths during the recent heatwave alert period, which began a week ago. Put another way,
Government fires first shots in ‘war on bureaucracy’
State reforms outlined following Council of Ministers Portugal’s AD government has revealed the opening gambits of its strategy for State Reform. In a press conference following yesterday’s Council of Ministers,
GALP announces ‘solar energy storage projects’ in Portugal and Spain
Investment of €27 million “partially financed by PRR” Portuguese energy giant GALP has announced construction of five battery projects, with a total capacity of 74 megawatts (MW), to store solar
Portugal left with just one Canadair heavy-duty water-bomber for August
With wildfires starting every day, resources stretched to limit Portugal is entering August with one Canadair water-bomber ‘laid up’ with a technical fault that will see it inoperational for the
Deep breath: Portugal goes into new “considerably severe hot weather episode”
Very high temperatures expected until August 6 A “hot weather episode”, forecast for between today and Wednesday in mainland Portugal, is expected to be “considerably severe” due to its duration
Young African ‘confesses’ to Lisbon decapitation horror
Carnage resulted from ‘date’ arranged over app “going badly” The extraordinary story of an African man discovered decapitated on Wednesday morning in Lisbon’s Baixa district seems to have been wrapped
Headless corpse mystery: man walks into hospital with ‘missing head’
Head delivered to São José Hospital mid-afternoon The mystery surrounding the head missing from a body discovered in the Baixa district of Lisbon has been ‘solved’: a man walked into
Fire-fighting Canadair in forced landing due to technical fault
Fire engine turns over in Cinfães A brief run-down of today’s fire situation sees fires concentrated, as they were yesterday, in the north and centre of the country. There are