Portugal battles wildfires as temperatures soar - KBC News

 

Now one of the countries that
experienced extreme heat and forest
fires back in July was Portugal August
has seen absolutely no let up fires like
these ones raging in the center and
south of the country Monday saw the
hottest temperature of the Year 46.4
degrees celsius in Santa Ram north of
the capital Lisbon well let us go back
to one of the many people battling the
heat in the south of the country the
former BBC correspondent Aleister
leithhead and Alistair we started
speaking about what 45.
minutes ago and I think the heat
overcame your computer but you were
telling us how bad the fires actually
were indeed my computer is now on Ice
Matthew I hope we can get through this
yam I can hear the constant Buzz behind
me now of the aircraft that are doing at
trips from the nearby Reservoir tea
can hear the constant Buzz behind me now
of the aircraft that are doing at trips
from the nearby Reservoir to the side of
the fire that s just over the hill
behind me it's about three or four
kilometers now from from where we are it
hasn't he moved very far today because
it's been such a I'm a calm day we had
30 mile an hour hot winds from the east
from the interior from Spain from the
hottest parts of the peninsula and that
doubled the size of the fire in a matter
of hours the firefighters of
which there are now almost a thousand
fighting this fire in 330 plus vehicles
with around 11 or 12 aircraft are trying
to contain it before the winds change
and this is the big danger we have here
is that the winds are swirling around
and if it suddenly picks up and starts
blowing again the fire.