The Biggest Fire of the Year Consumed More than 15,000 Hectares, Six Thousand in Vouzela Alone
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To date, this was the biggest fire of the year, having erupted from 03:04 on day 2 until 12:40 on day 5. There are still 35 operatives on the ground to avoid rekindling.
With more than 15,000 hectares destroyed, the fire, until now the biggest of the year, provoked two serious wounds and six slight ones, it came to be fought by more than 1,200 operatives and reached the councils of Vouzela, Tondela and Oliveira de Frades, in the district of Viseu, and Águeda, already in the district of Aveiro.
The fire that broke out at the beginning of the month in the municipality of Vouzela consumed more than 15,000 hectares, six thousand of which in this county, said today to the agency Lusa the commander of the Volunteer Firefighters of that village.
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