Three firefighters die as Portugal battles dozens of wildfires

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Three firefighters die as Portugal battles dozens of wildfires
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NELAS, Portugal - Three Portuguese firefighters died on Tuesday in one of dozens of forest blazes ravaging the country's central and northern regions, bringing the death toll from the latest wildfires to seven people since Saturday, authorities said. Portugal is fighting over 50 active wildfires on its mainland and has mobilised around 5,300 firefighters, as well as calling for European Union help.

He spoke from the command centre in Oliveira de Azemeis in the northwestern Aveiro district where a cluster of four blazes has caused the most damage so far, burning down dozens of houses, and where four people have died.Fernandes said late on Monday the Aveiro fires that had burned through more than 10,000 hectares of forest and shrubland could engulf a further 20,000 hectares.

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