Fire in Tarouca with three active fronts in the direction of the Santa Helena mountain range

"It's burning quite intensely and on three huge fronts. I have very few land resources and at this time I don't even have any air resources," Humberto Sarmento, commander of the Tarouca Volunteer Fire Department, told Lusa news agency around 8:30 p.m.

According to the commander, this fire started after another one, "which has already been overcome, but reached another slope that is also very difficult to access, with kilometers of frontage, and is on a slope, with the Santa Helena mountain range in front, on the slope in front."

"There are no localities in danger, but the fire is spreading along the villages of Vilarinho, Valverde, and Mondim da Beira. This is the area where the fire is located, without having left the municipality," he stated.

The alert for the fire in Vilarinho, in the parish of São João de Tarouca, municipality of Tarouca, district of Viseu, took place at 7 pm on Saturday.

At 8:45 pm today, 125 operators supported by 39 vehicles were fighting the fire, according to the official website of the National Emergency and Civil Protection Authority (ANEPC).