A total of 44 workers, supported by 14 vehicles, are already fighting the fire that broke out this afternoon, at 16:47 pm, in an area of 'cane fields and bush', between Laranjal and Pinheiros Altos, close to Ludo and Quinta do Lago.
Councilor Carlos Carmo, from the Chamber of Loulé, told the Sul Informação that the fire will have started «in a burning that got out of control». What our newspaper found, at first firefighters were called to the scene to control a burning, but they have already encountered a forest fire.
Carlos Carmo added that the biggest constraint to the work of the firefighters, who are doing everything to try to control the fire, has been the wind and difficult access».
The flames erupted in the Ludo area, «none end of the last summer's fire zone». "There are no homes at risk," added the official.
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