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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — Fire swept through a training facility for Brazil’s most popular football club Flamengo Friday, killing at least 10 people, authorities said. The pre-dawn blaze in Rio de Janeiro hit a building that housed youth-category players aged 14 to 17, firefighters said. In addition to the deaths, three people were injured in the fire. The cause was not immediately known. Globo TV broadcast aerial footage of the fire, which it […]
by Thomas Cabral Agence France-Presse MACAO, Portugal (AFP) — Forest fires cut off a village of 2,000 people in Portugal, as firefighters struggled Thursday to control two major blazes in the centre of the country, local officials said. And with another wave of hot weather forecast, the government declared a state of emergency in some central and northern regions. Summer has seen a record number of fires and Portugal’s Interior Minister Constanca Urbano de Sousa […]
VILLA DE REI MUNICIPALITY, Portugal (CCTV) — The Spanish Military Emergency Unit (UME) deployed 116 military personnel and 26 vehicles on Monday to battle Portugal’s wildfire in the center of the country, according to reports. The troops came from the First and Fifth Battalion Emergency Intervention with headquarters in Madrid and Leon respectively, the Emergency Support and Intervention Regiment and the Transmission Battalion in Madrid, detailed the UME. The deployment has been carried out near […]
KALAMOS, Greece (Reuters) — Wildfires burned through the night on Monday (August 14) in woodland some three towns near Athens, some 45 kilometers (30 miles) northeast of the capital as firefighters battled to contain the blaze. The fire was burning unchecked for a second day, damaging dozens of homes. It broke out around 1300GMT on Sunday (August 13) in Kalamos, a coastal holiday spot and quickly spread, fanned by strong and changing winds. A state […]
