(14 Aug 2025)
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Benvende, Trancoso – 14 August 2025
1. Various of sun covered by thick smoke
2. Wide of fire front
3. Various of flames
4. Various of locals rushing to leave
5. Fire burning next to grave
6. Fire engine arriving
7. Various of firefighters
8. Various of locals battling flames and protecting area
9. Sister Agustinha and Fernanda speaking
10. Wide of Agustinha’s house
11. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Agustinha Nobre, resident:
“Very difficult (hours). I thought I was going to lose my house. I was never in a situation like this. This was horrendous, the flames, luckily the land was cleaned (watered down) otherwise.”
12. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Agustinha Nobre, resident:
“I put water in the back and the firefighters managed to help otherwise my house and my sister’s house would not survive.”
13. Various of Fernanda’s son watering roof
14. Various of Fernanda watering garden
15. Fernanda and sister
16. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Fernanda (surname not given), resident:
“It was not easy, it was very difficult, if I didn’t have the bulldozer I wouldn’t be able to defend my house, everything would burn.”
17. People being taken into chapel
18. Various of chapel
19. Animals being evacuated
20. Smoke covering sky
STORYLINE:
3600 firefighters continued to battle massive wildfires in Portugal on Thursday, as much of southern Europe remained at high risk under hot, dry conditions.
On Thursday afternoon, the Portuguese village of Benvende in Trancoso was surrounded by flames.
Firefighters and locals rushed to battle the flames and local pensioners were evacuated to a small chapel in the centre of the village.
“I put water in the back and the firefighters managed to help otherwise my house and my sister’s house would not survive," said Benvende resident Agustinha Nobre.
The country is under a state of alert until Sunday due to the weather forecast and the extreme risk of fires.
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