It was at the last minute that, during the afternoon of this Saturday, the Government convened a meeting with five ministers to assess the country’s situation in terms of fires, after two records were broken in less than 48 hours: 121 fires on Friday and 125 on Saturday. And it was also 24 hours before embarking for Mozambique that the prime minister canceled the trip to Mozambique to be “permanently available in the country” in the contingency period that had just been decided. And the President of the Republic did the same in relation to the trip to New York.
The tragic fires of 2017 remain vivid in the memory and, during the afternoon, both the Government and Civil Protection were called by journalists to draw this parallel, taking into account the weather conditions that occur these days. In the instructions Around 7 p.m., the national commander of Emergencies and Civil Protection warned that the night was approaching difficult, taking into account the high temperature, low humidity and the wind “with intensity from the east quadrant”.
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Source: Observadora
