Firefighters try to control a massive forest fire near Cardigos, central Portugal, July 21, 2019 -
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A volunteer firefighter died on Monday while fighting a blaze in central Portugal.
The man was killed while trying to overcome a blaze, which had broken out in Oliveira de Frades, in the Viseu region.
More than 300 men were mobilized this Monday afternoon to fight against the flames.
The firefighter had "moved away from his colleagues" before being "missing for a few hours," the firefighter commander told local media.
More than a thousand firefighters mobilized this summer
He was finally "found dead asphyxiated", specified the commander.
This is the fifth firefighter who died this summer in Portugal.
At the beginning of August, the pilot of a water bomber plane had perished in the crash his aircraft in Spain while fighting a fire on the northern border of Portugal.
The country is in the grip of forest fires which have mobilized a total of more than a thousand firefighters, according to the Ministry of the Interior.
Due to "adverse weather conditions", marked in particular by temperatures reaching 38 ° C, civil protection was placed on alert until Tuesday evening.
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