Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://www.xtra.net/news/world/portugal-battles-forest-fires-amid-heatwaveAround 1,500 firefighters were battling multiple forest fires and several bush fires in central and northern Portugal Sunday following a punishing heatwave, prompting the government to implement a “state of contingency”. The fires have been burning in several areas since Thursday, destroying at....text/html2022-09-14T19:30+0200xtra-ngenxtra-ng-fd5cba28220774c0507c147a24e212ebRegulationEU-relatedCoverageERCC-ForestFiresNews-GenericTEMProtectedAreaProtestsDrought_test-01RWFireECHO-PressReview-CivilProtectionCivilProtectionClimateChange-GeneralFull_noveltyET_Military_MovementsENClimateChangeIPRightsForestFireACCENTAttacker_institutionerEUECHO-PressReview-NaturalDisastersWesternBalkans-Politics2UNDP_NaturalDisastersCivilProtection_generalEUControlWordsEU-InstitutionsERCC-ForestFiresNaturalDisastersET_Crop_DamageENEMMCoFE_HumanitarianAid_CivilProtectionMI-EUPortugalClimateAction-GeneralEMMCoFE_Stronger_Europe_in_the_worldECHO-PressReviewECHO-ForestFiresECHO-ForestFiresEUCountriesGHSAGearSpecialInterestCountriesPPRDEast2_Programme_Disasters2_Dev_generalMF00-EuropeMF12-EUInstitutionsSR_cloud_keywordsPolicyClimateActionhttps://www.xtra.net/favicon.icoCivil ProtectionEuropean UnionAntonio CostaPortuguese governmentAndre FernandesCivil Protection agencyAFPPortugalMozambiqueSpainPombalFreixiandaSundaysince Thursdayon FridaySaturdaythis weekSundaySundaySundaySaturdaythis yearin Juneneutralsurprisereliableportugal battles forest,forest fires amid,northern portugal sunday,civil protection,fires amid heatwave,battling multiple forest,battles forest fires,1,500 firefighters,state of contingency,fires raged sunday,punishing heatwave,minister antonio costa-1320220914193000