The home of a British couple has been saved from destruction following days of wildfires in Portugal. Firefighters have battled overnight to control wildfires in Portugal after more than a thousand people were evacuated from their homes. Report by Ajagbef. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:49 The sun was red, you know, the sky went sort of apocalyptic.
00:53 So then you're in crisis mode and you're just doing your best to think,
00:57 how can we make this as safe as possible, what do we need to take, and then you go.
01:02 Yeah, yeah.
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01:14 I'd already steeled myself for the worst, so I wouldn't crash too low when I saw it.
01:20 So actually at first it was more disbelief than anything, it was just pure disbelief
01:25 that everything else around us was blackened and yet it was our beautiful home
01:31 that's been our sort of focus for a decade really.
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