Portugal to send over 100 Civil Protection agents to help with Canadian wildfires
Portugal Resident
Portugal is ready to send up to 120 Civil Protection agents to Canada, to help authorities there battling intense forest fires, minister for interior administration José Luís Carneiro has confirmed. All that is required is “the terms under which Canada proposes transporting them. As soon as this is defined, the force will be on its […]
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Portimão aerodrome becomes base for rural firefighting planes
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For first time two fireboss planes stationed in Algarve through summer Portimão aerodrome has become a new base for firefighting planes run by the country’s Civil Protection service. This means two ‘fireboss’ water-bombers will be ‘on hand’ in the Algarve through the worst of the rural wildfire season (June through to end September). Portimão council […]
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