Delta phase of fighting forest fires, with moderate risk period began on 1st October and runs until 31st October. This succeeds the critical period of fires – Charlie phase, which ended on September 30.
During the Delta phase the following resources are mobilized 1,268 teams / groups / brigades of the different forces involved, comprising 5,517 personnel and 1,286 vehicles. With regards to air support there are a total of 22 aircraft available, including 3 light helicopters, 3 heavy helicopters, 8 medium helicopters, medium fixed wing aircraft, 6 amphibians and two heavy aircraft.
- It is a mistake to put heavy fighter aircraft in Castelo Branco
- Parliament approves: throwing cigarette buts on the ground will result in a fine
- Thirty Six persons tried for ATM explosions and money laundering
- Portugal regains 3rd place as world’s most peaceful country.
- Training for the security forces for appropriate intervention with LGBTI people
- AGIF considers that Portugal remains “very vulnerable to the risk of fires”
- More dead and injured in road accidents in the first five months of the year
- President of Assembly of Republic proposes to dedicate June 17 as National Day in Memory of Victims of Fires
- Programa Estou Aqui! ® I’m Here Child Safety Program
- US State Department begins social media screening for nearly all visa applications.
- Rural Fires. Municipalities have until the end of the day to clear land from non-compliant landowners
- Portugal Civil Protection Exercise Cascade 2019
- Portugal: Company uses satellite images to find environmental crimes
- Comunicado Conjunto do Ministério da Administração Interna e do Ministério da Agricultura, Florestas e Desenvolvimento Rural
- Portugal Mainland placed on Rural Fire Alert
