Overview

• Nearly 2,700 firefighters and 29 aerial units have been mobilized by Tuesday evening to combat 17 major fire fronts in northern and central Portugal
• The most critical blaze near Arouca now involves about 750 ground crews and 195 vehicles working in dense eucalyptus terrain
• Fires at Penamacor and Ponte da Barca, which drew four Spanish firefighting planes, have reactivated on some fronts but remain more contained than the Arouca fire
• Civil Protection logged 132 new fire alerts on Tuesday—the highest daily total this year—and warns that persistent high temperatures and strong winds could drive further spread
• Prime Minister Luís Montenegro and Interior Minister Maria Lucia Amaral visited Civil Protection headquarters as the country stays under a ‘maximum or very high’ fire-risk alert