{"id":175699,"date":"2018-08-08T06:22:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T10:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=175699"},"modified":"2025-01-12T19:49:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T00:49:32","slug":"major-portuguese-wildfire-defies-attempts-halt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/08\/08\/major-portuguese-wildfire-defies-attempts-halt\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Portuguese wildfire defies attempts to halt it"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_175708\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-175708\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/forest-fire-2268729_1280.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-175708\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/forest-fire-2268729_1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/forest-fire-2268729_1280.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/forest-fire-2268729_1280-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/forest-fire-2268729_1280-768x398.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/forest-fire-2268729_1280-1024x530.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-175708\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Civil Protection Agency said Wednesday that almost 2,000 firefighters from across Portugal were deployed at the blaze, the highest number yet. (Pixabay file photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LISBON, Portugal &#8211; Emergency services in Portugal are struggling for a sixth day to contain a major wildfire blackening hills in the country&#8217;s southern Algarve region.<\/p>\n<p>The Civil Protection Agency said Wednesday that almost 2,000 firefighters from across Portugal were deployed at the blaze, the highest number yet.<\/p>\n<p>They were supported by six aircraft and more than 380 vehicles.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy trazodone online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.auriculotherapy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/trazodone.html\">https:\/\/www.auriculotherapy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/trazodone.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>After recent torrid weather, temperatures were getting back to normal, with 31 C (88 F) forecast for the Algarve.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy buspar online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.auriculotherapy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/buspar.html\">https:\/\/www.auriculotherapy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/buspar.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Gusting winds have made the battle more difficult, though firefighters working in the night managed to stop one front reaching the town of Silves, a popular tourist spot and home to about 6,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>High clouds of black smoke have towered over Portugal&#8217;s Algarve region, which is a top European vacation destination.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy metformin online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.auriculotherapy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/metformin.html\">https:\/\/www.auriculotherapy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/metformin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LISBON, Portugal &#8211; Emergency services in Portugal are struggling for a sixth day to contain a major wildfire blackening hills &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":175708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283012,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175699\/revisions\/283012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}