More than 1,100 firefighters were battling fires in the northwestern Aveiro district where one ... special red alert status ...

The worst-affected area is the Aveiro district in the northwest ... around the clock to contain the spread of the fires.

Portugal has brought under control the remaining forest fires it battled this week in ... Four blazes engulfed the Aveiro region, south of the city of Porto, across a front of around 100 ...

At least seven people have died after wildfires in the Aveiro and Viseu areas of Portugal, although cooler ... Spain and Morocco to help fight the fires.

André Fernandes, Portugal's national civil protection ... situation required additional support. Several fires that broke out in the Aveiro region over the weekend forced about 70 residents ...

Unlike parts of Greece and Italy, for example, where scorching summers mean weeds and other plants that can fuel fires tend to grow slowly, northwestern Portugal, with its proximity to the ...

He is one of many dispirited locals in northern Portugal who on Thursday were taking stock of the damage wreaked by powerful forest fires across large swathes of land earlier this week. The blazes, ...

The death toll from two weeks of record blazes rose to 16 when a firefighter, who had been burned in a forest fire in central Portugal last ... contained most of the fires in the Algarve region ...