WATCH: Massive Wildfire Rages In Central Portugal; Spanish Military Units Deployed To Battle Flames

By Times Now World

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A catastrophic hillside wildfire that erupted in central Portugal's Vouzela municipality has severely deteriorated into a multi-front regional emergency, burning thousands of hectares of dry forest and aggressively advancing toward high-density rural villages. The National Emergency and Civil Protection Authority confirmed that five distinct active fire fronts are currently tearing through surrounding mountain ranges, forcing emergency services to execute tactical precautionary evacuations across the Serra do Caramulo region and enforce a total emergency closure of the vital A25 motorway between Vouzela and Reigoso. Hundreds of municipal firefighters backed by water-bombing air tankers and heavy helibuckets are struggling to anchor lines due to severe localized water scarcity and volatile wind shifts. Confronting an explosive rate of ignition fueled by triple-digit summer temperatures and desiccated woodland vegetation, the Portuguese government has formally requested urgent reinforcem

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