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Flames left seven injured, two of whom are in serious condition.
Six locations considered critical were identified by the municipal authority for the installation of 10 water tanks. The equipment “can be moved quickly to other areas,” the council said.
Eight people, aged between eight and 35, were taken to hospital on Saturday due to smoke inhalation after a fire in an apartment in Coimbra. The fire was caused by a short circuit in the electrical panel.
One firefighter and 12 civilians were taken to hospital.
Firefighters from São Pedro de Sintra are on scene.
At around 10:00, a fire in Alenquer left one person dead and 14 others injured.
The fire that broke out today in an apartment of an eight-storey residential building in Carregado, Alenquer, in the Lisbon district, left one person dead and four injured, according to a civil protection source.
A fire in an eight-storey building in the municipality of Alenquer, Portugal, has resulted in one fatality; emergency services attended the scene.
A source from the West Sub-regional Command of Civil Protection said that at 09:45 work was still ongoing at the scene, adding that the fire caused the death of a 45-year-old man.
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The flames were extinguished by the site's security team.
Contrary to the decline recorded in reports to municipal councils, the number of citations to private entities rose in 2025 to 294 cases.
The National Republican Guard (GNR) issued a total of 1,634 administrative offence reports against entities between 2023 and 2025, 465 of which related to municipal councils. Most were for failure to clear land, the security force said. According to data sent to Lusa by the GNR under the statute that establishes the ...
Two elderly people were hospitalised. Intervention by emergency services kept the fire confined to a single room, with no vertical spread to the roof.
Fire was quickly extinguished by teams from the Loulé Fire Brigade.
One of the victims was in serious condition.
