Almost 1,600 firefighters have been deployed to fight fires in 20 different areas on Monday, as the country battles with high temperatures and strong winds.
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00:00Portugal has requested assistance from the European Union as a series of wildfires reach
00:06residential areas across the country.
00:11Authorities have warned more than 100 municipalities are at extreme risk as emergency services
00:18struggle to control at least nine fires, made worse by high temperatures and wind.
00:27The situation is particularly critical in the Alentejo and Aveiro regions, where flames
00:32have consumed several houses and killed a firefighter.
00:37The Portuguese government has asked the EU Commission to activate its civil protection
00:42mechanism, which would provide Portugal with additional firefighters, water bombers and
00:47helicopters.
00:50It can also help by using satellite imagery from the Copernicus system, the Earth observation
00:56component of the EU's space programme, to track fires on the ground.
01:02Spain and France are sending firefighting aircraft to help tackle the flames.