Portugal forest fires kill 43 near Coimbra

Commander Wallace · 06-20-17, 06:09 PM

It's hard to imagine the tragic events there. Thoughts and prayers to those involved or affected by this tragedy.

Mr Quatro · 06-20-17, 06:43 PM

I counted a lot more than 43 cars and trucks burned just on the news shows ... surely some of them got away running for their dear lives I bet.

Jimbuna · 06-21-17, 07:45 AM

It was being reported yesterday that a water-dropping plane had crashed while fighting the forest fires but there is still no official confirmation.

Rhodes · 06-21-17, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

It was being reported yesterday that a water-dropping plane had crashed while fighting the forest fires but there is still no official confirmation.

It didn't happened. A trailer with some gas bottles was caught by the fire front and exploded when a Canadair was doing the water drop, so it was thought that was a plane that crashed, but it was denied in the press conference about the day situation status.

Jimbuna · 06-21-17, 09:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Rhodes

It didn't happened. A trailer with some gas bottles was caught by the fire front and exploded when a Canadair was doing the water drop, so it was thought that was a plane that crashed, but it was denied in the press conference about the day situation status.

Ah, okay, thanks for clearing that one up.

MaDef · 06-21-17, 02:24 PM

out of curiosity does Europe not have an integrated wildfire fighting program?

fireftr18 · 06-21-17, 06:53 PM

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Originally Posted by MaDef

out of curiosity does Europe not have an integrated wildfire fighting program?

I haven't heard anything specific about Europe. I know US and Canada, and they work together. Australia, New Zealand, Russia, China, and South Africa all have a national program. The difference as you can see, other than New Zealand, I named large land area countries.

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Commander Wallace Navy Seal Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Under the sea in an Octupus garden in the shade Posts: 5,304 Downloads: 366 Uploads: 0	It's hard to imagine the tragic events there. Thoughts and prayers to those involved or affected by this tragedy.

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MaDef Ace of the Deep Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 1,194 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	out of curiosity does Europe not have an integrated wildfire fighting program?