The Government decides this Tuesday whether to extend the alert situation due to the risk of rural fire, which ends at 11:59 p.m., or if it reactivates the contingency, which was in force until Sunday for seven days.
fires Almost the entire territory of the continent in maximum and very high danger
The alert situation, the lowest level of response provided for in the Basic Civil Protection Law, is in effect in mainland Portugal from 00:00 on Monday to 23:59 on Tuesday. once the temperatures dropped.
The Ministries of Internal Administration, National Defense, Labor, Solidarity and Social Security, Health, Environment and Climate Action and Agriculture and Food will meet again this Tuesday to meet and reassess the situationTaking into account that a further increase in temperatures is expected wednesday
Continental Portugal was in a contingency situation, according to the level of response provided for in the Basic Civil Protection Law, between July 11 and last Sunday.
The Government has already formalized the Contingency Situation throughout the continental territory
Before entering a contingency situation, mainland Portugal was between July 8 and 10 in alertbut later due to worsening weather conditions the level has worsened.
The alert situation is, according to the Organic Law of Civil Protection, the least serious level, below the contingency situation and the most serious level, the calamity situation.
In the last week, the country faced high temperatures and the hottest day was July 13, in which almost all districts were under red alert, the most serious issued by the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and the Atmosphere (IPMA).
Red warnings of heat and very high and maximum danger due to peninsular fires
It was also on July 13 that the ANEPC registered the highest number of rural fires this yearin one total 193.
Forest fires have consumed this year 43,721 hectaresnear 30,000 of which since July 8according to provisional data from the Institute for the Conservation of Nature and Forests (ICNF).
Source: Observadora
