Portugal battles wildfires amid third heatwave of the year

traveler01 , 10 months ago

Most of these fires are set by people.

luffyuk , 10 months ago

🤡

Konlanx , 10 months ago

You mean the people running big corporations and not giving a fuck about the environment, right?

agarorn , 10 months ago

No, I think he means that most wildfires are directly human made.

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Konlanx , 10 months ago

Yes, just like I said.

agarorn , 10 months ago

No.

Konlanx , 10 months ago

Yes.

KIM_JONG_JUICEBOX , 10 months ago

Gentlemen! You can’t fight in here. This is the war room.

PixTupy , 10 months ago

I don’t understand if you’re trying to make a point. So what if they are set by people?

Do they happen in the winter when it’s cold?

traveler01 , 10 months ago

These people usually use these heat waves as a cover for the fires. It’s a big industry in the Portugal, which apparently even the government protects.

traveler01 , 10 months ago

The guys who do this sometimes get arrested but are let go to freedom by the court. Some do for fun since penalties aren’t working, others do it because they’re paid by some industry.

KIM_JONG_JUICEBOX , 10 months ago

I would think arsonists start fires.

Who is getting paid by big industry and why?

traveler01 , 10 months ago

For example.

This is just one example. Portugal wastes millions hiring privates to fight these fires. Then there’s the burnt wood that’s purchased for cheap by other industries. (You might need translate it).

There are cases of the same person being caught various times setting fires. Penalties are a joke.

KIM_JONG_JUICEBOX , 10 months ago

Well that’s shitty.

PixTupy , 10 months ago

They don’t do it as a “cover”, the heat waves just help it to propagate.

There’s no cover needed for this type of criminality.

traveler01 , 10 months ago

Both, but yeah the heat waves help increasing the burnt area.

autotldr Bot , 10 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

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Three major fires that scorched hundreds of hectares in Spain over the weekend have been brought under control, but weather alerts remain in place across much of the country.

The fire near Odemira began on Saturday and was driven south into the hilly interior of the Algarve, Portugal’s main tourism region, by strong winds.

It has so far destroyed some 6,700 hectares (16,600 acres) of land, while a total of 19 villages, four tourist accommodations and a camping site have been evacuated.

In the centre of the country, other major fires prompted the closure of several stretches of motorway, including parts of the A1 between Lisbon and Porto.

In Spain, fires near the south-western coastal cities of Cadiz and Huelva and in the northern Catalonia region scorched more than 1,000 hectares (2,470 acres) in total on Saturday and Sunday.

Ruben del Campo of Spain’s State Meteorological Agency told Reuters it was being caused by a large mass of hot, dry air from North Africa and would be “generally more intense, more widespread and a little longer-lasting” than the two that hit in July.

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