The flames continue to devour the mountains of Tavira. During the night, when it was around 1:30 am, the fire was reduced to three fronts, but the night was not calmer in the municipalities of Tavira and S. Brás de Alportel, taking into account several reports from residents on social networks.
After yesterday the fire passed to the neighboring municipality of São Brás de Alportel, there were hours of great affliction in the area, with many villages and scattered houses. There was even a need to evacuate some areas.
In Tavira, the fire “descended” towards the south for about 30 kilometers and is now very close to the city, in an area that is also quite populated, with many scattered houses.
Still during the night, when it was 3:00 am, the Minister of Internal Administration Miguel Macedo visited the Operational Command Post installed in Cachopo, meeting with the president of the Municipality of Tavira, who asked him to decree a state of public calamity in the county .
On the ground they continue to fight the flames, according to the Civil Protection website, 635 men, supported by 151 vehicles that, at daybreak, will once again be able to count on the support of aerial means to try to control the three fire fronts. active.
The Portuguese authorities will once again ask Spain for the support of the Canadair plane that intervened in the theater of operations in the Serra de Tavira yesterday. However, the transfer of this air means depends on the assessment that the Spanish authorities make of their own risk.
This is already the third day of flames in the Serra de Tavira. The fire broke out on Wednesday afternoon, at 14:10 pm, in the area of Catraia.
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